Make the Most of Your Advanced OpenType Fonts

Mon, Oct 5, 2009

QuarkXPress 7 and higher let you take advantage of the intelligence built into advanced OpenType fonts — characters that change shape depending on their position within a word or sentence, automatic swash substitutions, and so on.

Note the two different uppercase “A”s and uppercase “P”s in the first two lines. Same for the “d”s and “s”s farther down. All this magic is accessed through the Measurements Palette’s Character Attributes tab:

In my monthly Font column for Macworld, I explain the concepts, technololgy, and use of these advanced OpenType features.

Have a look, at www.macworld.com/article/142869/2009/10/adiosfont.html

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This post was written by:

Jay Nelson - who has written 797 posts on Planet Quark.

Jay Nelson is the editorial director of PlanetQuark.com, and the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly. He’s also the author of the QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 7 training titles at Lynda.com, as well as the training videos Quark includes in the box with QuarkXPress 7 . In addition, Jay has a monthly Fonts column in Macworld, writes for several other publications and speaks at industry events.

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