Adobe After Effects®Font technical notes
This page offers an index of technical font documentation.
Note: For technical notes about Adobe® Acrobat® and Adobe PDF font topics, such as ToUnicode tables and Widths-only fonts, see Advanced Acrobat/PDF technical documentation.
Documentation is available in the following areas:
Specifications
Adobe Type 1 Font Format (PDF: 445k)
Type
1 Font Format Supplement #5015 (PDF: 188k)
(supersedes #5047 and #5086)
5/15/94
Adobe
Font Metrics File Format Specificationt #5004 (PDF: 238k)
Version 4.1
10/16/95
Glyph
Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) Specification #5005 (PDF: 103k)
Version 2.2
3/22/93
Adobe Binary Screen Font Files Specification #5006 (PDF: 41k)
Version 2.0
3/31/92
The Type 42 Font Format Specification #5012 (PDF: 160k)
7/31/98
Adobe
Standard Cyrillic Font Specification #5013 (PDF: 336k)
2/18/98
Sonata® Font Design Specification #5045 (PDF: 39k)
3/31/92
The Compact Font Format Specification #5176 (PDF: 510k)
12/04/03
The Type 2 Charstring Format #5177 (PDF: 183k)
3/16/00
CID-Keyed sfnt Font File Format for the Macintosh,
version 2.0 #5180 (PDF: 186k)
2/12/97
General font issues
Macintosh FOND Resources #0091 (PDF: 105k)
3/31/92
Supporting Downloadable PostScript® Language
Fonts #5040 (PDF: 87k)
3/31/92
The StemSnap Hint Operator for Type 1 Font Programs #5049 (PDF: 33k)
3/31/92
Supporting
Fonts in the PostScript Language Environment #5075 (PDF: 125k)
3/31/92
Font
Naming Issues #5088 (PDF: 182k)
4/12/93
Glyph Naming
#5089 12/17/98
Superseded - see Unicode and Glyph Names
Adobe
Font Name Reference Table #5090 (PDF: 469k)
1/29/98
Designing Multiple Master Typefaces #5091 (PDF: 3.4M)
9/07/95
Bar Code Font Vendor List #5096 (PDF: 27k)
09/25/98
PostScript 3 Core Font Set Overview #5609 (PDF: 31k)
10/09/97
Font Embedding Guidelines
CJK /CID-keyed fonts
Adobe CMap and CID Font Files Specification #5014 (PDF: 525k)
Version 1.0
10/08/96
Adobe-Japan1-6 Character Collection for CID-Keyed Fonts #5078 (PDF: 7.38M)
6/11/04
Adobe-GB1-4 Character Collection for CID-Keyed
Fonts #5079 (PDF: 14M)
11/30/00
Describes the Adobe-GB1-4 character collection that supports the Chinese GB 2312-80, GB 1988-89, GB/T 12345-90, GB 13000.1-93, and GB 18030-2000 character set standards.
Adobe-CNS1-4
Character Collection for CID-Keyed Fonts #5080 (PDF: 8.5M)
5/27/03
The purpose of this Traditional Chinese character collection is to provide
support for the Big Five and CNS 11643-1992 character set standards.
CID-Keyed Font Technology Overview #5092 (PDF: 112k)
9/12/94
Adobe-Korea1-2 Character Collection for CID-Keyed Fonts #5093 (PDF: 5.98M)
5/27/03
Adobe-Korea1-2 provides support for the KS X 1001:1992 (formerly KS C 5601-1992)
and KS X 1003:1993 (formerly KS C 5636) character set standards, and select
corporate variations thereof.
Adobe CJK Character Collections and CMaps
for CID-Keyed Fonts #5094 (PDF: 154k)
6/11/04
Explains the character sets and encodings supported by the various Character
Collections and CMap files provided by Adobe.
Adobe-Japan2-0 Character Collection for CID-Keyed Fonts #5097 (PDF: 2.72M)
5/27/03
Provides support for the JIS X 0212-1990 character set standard.
Building CMap Files for CID-Keyed Fonts #5099 (PDF: 284k)
10/14/98
CID-Keyed Font Installation for PostScript
File Systems #5174 (PDF: 37k)
8/96
Describes how to install CID-keyed fonts and the CID Support Library (CSL) files into PostScript language file systems.
CID-Keyed Font Installation for ATM™ Software #5175 (PDF: 62k)
3/18/98
Describes how to install CID-keyed fonts for use with ATM software for both Macintosh and Windows.
Building PFM Files for PostScript-Language
CJK Fonts #5178 (PDF: 143k)
1/10/97
Explains how to build Printer Font Metrics (PFM) files for PostScript language CJK fonts (both OCF and CID-keyed). This document is not a file format specification (which is available from Microsoft), and it does not specifically address building PFM files for Roman fonts.
CID-Keyed sfnt Font File Format for the Macintosh,
version 2.0 #5180 (PDF: 186k)
2/12/97
Application Support for PostScript CJK Fonts #5640 (PDF: 175k)
12/15/97
Enabling PDF Font Embedding for CID-Keyed
Fonts #5641 (PDF: 48k)
7/07/98
SING Glyphlet Production: Tips, Tricks & Techniques #5148 (PDF: 318k)
08/02/06
OpenType-CID/CFF CJK Fonts: 'name' Table Tutorial #5149 (PDF: 117k)
09/08/05
PDF core font information
Font Metrics for PDF Core 14 Fonts
Mac (SIT/HQX: 175k)
Win (ZIP: 125k)
Unix (TAR: 640k)
CMaps for PDF CJK Fonts
Chinese Simplified (ZIP: 348k)
Chinese Traditional (ZIP: 372k)
Japanese (ZIP: 228k)
Korean (ZIP: 252k)
