PUBLISHERS NOTE: FORM AND FUNCTION

From the beginnings of time, typography has been integral to the development of human culture and commerce and, of course, the graphic arts. Ideas of harmony, form and proportion change, as do technologies for reproducing text and graphics, but type has remained preeminent in shaping visual communication. And through the ages, the great typefaces and compelling type collections have had one thing in common: they successfully combine form and function to offer graphic artists the choice and beauty to convey the message as well as the practicality and reliability to inspire confidence. The newly launched Adobe® Font Folio® 11 software embodies these timeless typographic traits — combining form and function — and it does so for our uniquely digital and cross-media era. Highlights of this important new designer-friendly launch follow.

— The Editors

ESSENTIAL TOOL

This new collection from Adobe is an essential part of any creative professional's toolbox, Adobe Font Folio 11 software offers a complete type solution for print, the web, digital video, and electronic documents. It includes more than 2,300 fonts from the Adobe Type Library in OpenType® format, which offers enhanced linguistic support, advanced typographic features, and true cross-platform compatibility.

ENHANCING CREATIVE FREEDOM

This newest version of Adobe Font Folio enhances creative freedom. The more than 2,300 high-quality OpenType fonts come from world renowned foundries, including Adobe, ITC, Linotype, and Monotype Imaging; cutting edge firms such as LetterPerfect and MVB Fonts; and talented individual designers, such as Timothy Donaldson and Jill Bell. The package also includes award-winning Adobe Originals typefaces that run the gamut from elegant to experimental — one-of-a-kind designs and classic revivals created by expert type designers at Adobe. In addition, creatives can explore special Opticals packages that provide four or more separate designs, each optimized for a different range of point sizes, from tiny text for footnotes to large type for headlines. Whether looking for a workhorse text face or an innovative display script, Font Folio has a typeface to suit the message. Licensees also receive updates to the Adobe Type Library, including revisions to many fonts to make them more consistent in layout behavior.

CROSS MEDIA CONFIDENCE

Adobe typefaces are the benchmark for quality regardless of the medium they are used in, a critical point as designers create and output across media and across platforms. Designers can print confidently, knowing that Adobe fonts offer reliable quality whether output to inkjet printers, laser printers, imagesetters, or platesetters. The fonts in Font Folio can be used to create animated GIFs and other typographically rich elements for web pages, and designers can also prepare classic or cutting-edge title effects for digital video and multimedia projects. Adobe typefaces also complement Adobe PDF workflow because they can be embedded in Adobe PDF documents in their entirety or as compact subsets. Similarly, Adobe Originals typefaces can be embedded for editing purposes as well as for printing and viewing. Workgroups can easily use fonts in a variety of projects across an organization by taking advantage of 5-, 10-, or 20- computer license options.

OPENTYPE MAKES IT SIMPLE

Simplicity and flexibility are also watchwords of this new Font Folio version. Adobe Font Folio 11 simplifies font management thanks to a single cross-platform font file. The OpenType format displays and prints fonts seamlessly in Mac and Windows environments, and can be used alongside existing font formats in all documents. Additionally, many of the OpenType fonts in Adobe Font Folio contain an expanded glyph set and advanced typographic features such as swashes, small caps, and old style figures — glyphs that are now all contained in one OpenType font file. Multilingual documents can be easily published using OpenType Pro fonts that support central and eastern European languages, as well as several that support Japanese, Greek, and Cyrillic. With only one file per typeface, OpenType fonts are easy to install — and they are natively supported in Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. Lastly, designers can build for the future now with the OpenType format's support for Unicode, a platform-independent, international text encoding standard that supports virtually all of the world's languages.

REFERENCES AND RESOURCES

To help creatives access the rich trove of fonts and to get optimal use from them, Adobe Font Folio 11 comes with substantial reference materials. These include the Adobe Type Library Reference Guide, which shows not only the characters of each typeface but organizes them both alphabetically and by style, and includes an easy-to use quick reference that shows what each font looks like, the distinguishing characteristics of different styles, and exposes designers to a rash of OpenType typographic glyphs. Also provided is a typographic primer in PDF format and specimen books for select fonts in Adobe PDF format.

To learn more about this new launch, visit http://www.adobe.com/products/fontfolio