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Support for CFF Fonts

A new Avalon / Indigo CTP was released today. One of the new features in this release is support for CFF fonts (something Ruben had asked about in the comments).

This means Avalon applications can use the OpenType features set with many more fonts. To demonstrate, here’s a screenshot of the excellent Bickham Script Pro drawn with a gradient fill using Avalon:

The words 'Bickham Script Pro' written in the Bickham Script Pro font

Here’s a snippet of the markup used for the screenshot (I’ll explain how it works in the next post):

<TextBlock FontSize="60" FontFamily="Bickham Script Pro" Foreground="VerticalGradient #f00 #00f">
  <Inline Typography.StylisticAlternates="1">B</Inline>ickham Script Pro
</TextBlock>
This entry was written by fil and posted on May 23, 2005 at 5:12pm and filed under Microsoft, Avalon, Work. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Michael Latta

    OK So the markup runs, but where do I get that wonderful font? All I get is helvetica or the like when I render it.

    Posted May 23, 2005 at 7:40pm | Permalink
  2. Michael Latta

    Nevermind. I see the link now. Any other font suggestions?

    Posted May 23, 2005 at 7:48pm | Permalink
  3. ruben

    Nice. Two questions though:

    - Will you be deprecating T1 fonts? Or will Avalon convert these to CFF on the fly? Adding T1 to the current list would be awesome. Font vendors would agree, I think. I expect encoding issues will make this a though one to do right, though.
    - Is ClearType supported for CFF fonts as well? (I ask this because that’s not true with the XP’s ClearType.)

    Posted May 24, 2005 at 2:00pm | Permalink