In this installment: a free tool to create EOT Lite webfonts; An Event Apart interviews CSS web comic creator; Apple is exonerated of censoring iPhone dictionary; and “a new breed of documentary photographers.”
- “A New Breed of Documentary Photographers”
- Curated by photographer/photo editor Geoffrey Hiller, Verve Photo presents “photos and interviews by the finest young image makers today.” Case in point: Joni Sternbach, and her amazing 8″ x 10″ Unique Tintypes of surfers.
- Schiller Responds Re: Ninjawords and App Store
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Daring Fireball follows up on its previous Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary, Censored by Apple, exhonerating Apple of censorship and suggesting that “Apple’s leadership is trying to make the course correction that many of us see as necessary for the long-term success of the platform.”
- An Interview With the Creator of “CSSquirrel”
- CSSquirrel is both a person and a web comic. Both are profoundly geeky. Picture a comic where, to understand the punch line, you have to follow the politics of the development of the HTML 5 specification or be conversant with the details of RGBa color notation, and you’ll know why we love the subject of this interview.
- Ascender Corp. introduces tool to create EOT Lite fonts
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In their own words:
Ascender has made a proposal for a subset of the Embedded OpenType (EOT) format with two features removed:
- MTX font compression
- URL Binding (root strings)
…In order to help type designers, foundries and font vendors create an EOT font without these two features, Ascender has developed a simple software utility called the “EOT Lite Wrap Tool.”
This GUI-based tool is compiled to run under Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Features in the tool include:
- Wrap a single font or a batch of fonts
- View the EOT font header information
Ascender is offering a free license to this tool to qualified type designers, foundries and font vendors for use to create EOT versions of their own fonts.
Please review the Read Me file and EULA before requesting a copy.
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