Fonts for Pages

Question

My wife is wondering if there is any more fonts, Windows type, for "Pages"? She is only using 67 Windows True-Type. She's worried about compatibility in e-mails, attachments, with our friends who are all Windows/PC users.

Answer 1

The great thing about this was that Apple licensed to Microsoft the TrueType technology that rescued PCs from type that looked totally and utter cr@p both onscreen and in print. In return Microsoft never delivered on their promise of a TruePrint technology. There must be high-fives all round at Microsoft every time they sucker Apple.
Like most matters in life, it's not so simple, sorry.
Bas, the scalable spline technology, was developed by Sampo Kaasila who in 1983 graduated top of his class from Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm, that is, from the Royal Polytechnic. Kaasila then went to work for Imagen Corporation in the US, and then from August 1987 to August 1989 for Apple on the spline programming language. Kaasila also developed what came to be known as the TrueType Variations technology. Kaasila is now R&D Director for Bitstream.
Royal, the internationalisation logic, was developed by two of the contributors acknowledged in the Unicode Proposal of 1988, David Opstad and Eric Mader. Opstad now works for Monotype and Mader for IBM on ICU International Components for Unicode, that is, on the internationalisation element of what once was Taligent. TrueType Specification version 1.0 was published in parallel with the Adobe Type 1 Specification, that is, in mid-1990.
TrueType 1.0 for simple obligatory shaping with the CMAP Character Map was implemented for Microsoft Windows 3.1 by Gregory Hitchcock. The intention was that Microsoft TrueImage would compete with Adobe PostScript and Apple TrueType would compete with Adobe Type 1 (and Agfa/HP Intellifont, Sun F3 Folio, Bitstream/HP Speedo and Fontware i.e. any and all so-called simple character-coded composition models).
With the Apple TrueType Specification and the Adobe Type 1 Specification going open and going public, Linotype which had partnered with Adobe and Apple in late 1984 saw the writing on the wall announced at DRUPA Druck und Papier in Düsseldorf that its leading composition products would be merged with the leading H e l l separation products to form the world's largest and most powerful prepress platform for imagesetting type matter and tone matter.
At FOGRA Forschungsgesellschaft Druck und Medien in München in April 1992, Adobe showed Carousel (later Acrobat) and it was announced that at that point the number of PostScript font program dictionaries available as Adobe Type 1 stood at 12,000 (twelve thousand). Following the publication of the PostScript Language Reference, Second Edition, in December 1990, Microsoft announced to Seybold in 1991 that TrueImage would not stay compatible with PostScript since PostScript did not have a colour architecture that supported the screen (a CSA > CRD transform is not invertible from CRC > CSA so it is possible to preview the printable colour appearance on the screen).
The deal between IBM and Microsoft on OS/2 and its Presentation Foundation fell through at the same time. In the grab bag OS/2 table of the TrueType Specification a sub-tag, the FSTYPE function, was introduced in order to support editable embedding of the font file in the file format of authoring applications including Microsoft Word. In technical terms, this approach preserved the source character string and the simple obligatory shaping of the CMAP Character Map so that style of face, size of face, justification, hyphenation and tabulation was WYSIWYG and at the same time editable since the font file travelled inside the Microsoft Word document.
Adobe went another way, arguing that if all professional production was by way of PostScript, then first capturing professional production in PostScript and then converting PostScript which is a page-dependent sequential access page description model into a page-independent random access page description model that permits pages to the accessed in any order the way the pages of a printed book are accessed in any order was the way ahead. The problem with it was that Adobe began by corrupting the source character string and then had to fall back to synthesising the source character string from cross-font glyph identifiers, whether the Adobe Glyph List or the Association for Font Information Interchange name list.
In mid-1993, Adobe published Acrobat 1.0 without search and Apple started seeding QuickDraw GX which included Apple Portable Digital Document technology. The International Color Consortium was formed in 1993, but the the transformation technology was somewhat simplistic in that it assumed that a print device was luminous linear in XYZ and that matrix-based transforms would suffice. The objections to this lead to the introduction of LUT Look-up Tables for print devices alongside matrix transforms for more linear devices such as monitors. The ICC archicture, unlike the PostScript architecture, was invertible and bidirectional from the start in order to support repurposing requirements including proofing.
In May 1994, Adobe acquired Aldus and thus blocked the QuickDraw GX graphics architecture that competed with PostScript. Aldus and Linotype-**** had already formed the Font Consortium to try to pressure Apple to make TrueType 2 cross-platform, but seeing the success Microsoft had with TrueType 1 and Microsoft applications that supported as well the source character string as WYSIWYG, Apple did not want to licence TrueType 2 whereas the file format of ColorSync 2 became the foundation of the International Color Consortium because Prof Dr Gerald Murch who headed the talks was convinced that Apple would never sell a single operating system on the argument that it was CIE managed from the ground up.
On the world wide web you can find posts in developer discussions where David Opstad says that in his view Apple should not licence TrueType 2 in order to preserve the advantage for Apple. The ColorSync 2 file format did survive to be succesful, but the TrueType 2 file format hitherto has lingered with John Jenkins posting that Apple internally does not have high regard for the rival extension tables termed OpenType, but on the other hand it is plain to see that Apple has done an truly terrible job of evangelising its internationalisation models, let alone supporting them in Apple system software and Apple application software.
In 1994, Dr Timothy Berners-Lee succeeded in setting up the World Wide Web Consortium and CEO's had to change perspective. I seem to remember William Gates as well as Dr John Warnock changing perspective at that point. But by then the starting point was unequal as in abstract archival space the condition is that you identify digital documents by their content of character information, and here Adobe's strategy that started by destroying the source character string was technically harakiri. So, now we have the problem of unknown amounts of viral type and unknown amounts of PDF that preserves the appearance but not the content.
In 2005, Microsoft made it clear that Adobe Type 1 would not be supported under the Presentation Foundation of Microsoft Windows Vista and in 2006 Microsoft left the International Color Consortium, of which it was a co-founder. The disagreement was over the ColorSync 2/ICC model which defines determinate, runtime-independent rendering for colour-colourant transforms, which incidentally is the same mould as the TrueType 2 model for determinate, runtime-independent rendering. The main opponent of this development model has been Adobe, by the bye.
This is a short summary, based on public posts with the people involved as well as private talks.
In 2005, Adobe had Pamella Pfiffner write a twentieth anniversary book on the Publishing Revolution, but the book is a celebration of Adobe's business model and not a discussion of Adobe's drawing models for composition, drawing models for separation, and document models for pagination.
References:
http://www.unicode.org/history/unicode88.pdf
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2001-10/msg00142.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg15529.html