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Frequently Asked Questions What is the Difference Between Tilde Fonts and Bitstream Fonts? What do I get in Tilde Font Package? What standards and code tables do Tilde localized fonts comply with? What languages do Tilde fonts cover? Can I use Tilde Fonts in Windows 3.x? Has Euro Character been Included in Tilde Fonts? How do I Decide whether to use Fonts in PostScript or TrueType Format? In MS Windows, what is the Difference between Unicode Fonts and non-Unicode Fonts? What are Font Substitutions? What is the Difference Between Tilde Fonts and Bitstream Fonts? Tilde signed a contract with Bitstream Inc. in 1995. Since then Tilde localizes Bitstream fonts by adding special characters for Eastern European, Baltic, Turkish and Cyrillic languages. Each Tilde font pack contains fonts in PostScript and TrueType formats in various encodings. Although Tilde fonts have considerable added value in comparison to the original Bitstream fonts, the price of Latin-based fonts is the same as that of Bitstream fonts. Localized fonts with Cyrillic alphabet price approx. 15% more.  What do I get in Tilde Fonts Package? Windows Latin-based font pack contains PostScript and TrueType fonts for cp1257 (Baltic), PostScript and TrueType fonts for cp1250 (Central European), and TrueType fonts in Unicode encoding covering Baltic, Central European, Turkish and Western languages. Windows Cyrillic font pack contains PostScript and TrueType fonts for cp1251 (Cyrillic), PostScript and TrueType fonts for cp1257 (Baltic), PostScript and TrueType fonts for cp1250 (Central European), and TrueType fonts in Unicode encoding covering Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Turkish and Western languages. Macintosh Latin-based font pack contains PostScript and TrueType fonts in Apple Central European (CE) encoding. Macintosh Cyrillic font pack contains PostScript and TrueType fonts in Apple Cyrillic encoding. What standards and code tables do Tilde localized fonts comply with? What languages do Tilde fonts cover? Tilde localized fonts comply with the encoding standards of ISO/IEC 10646, Microsoft and Apple. Apple CE - Central European fonts:Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, English, German Apple Cyrillic fonts: Russian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian, English Windows cp1250 Central European fonts: Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Albanian, Croatian, Romanian, Slovene, English, German Windows cp1257 Baltic Rim fonts: Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, English, German Windows cp1251 Cyrillic fonts (where applicable): Russian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian, English Windows Unicode fonts: Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Albanian, Croatian, Romanian, Slovene, Turkish, English, German, and where applicable: Russian, Byelorussian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian Can I use Tilde Fonts in Windows 3.x? The fonts do work on Windows 3.x. However, font Setup works on Win 32 only. Purchase the regular font set and request a font pack for Windows 3.x from Tilde. 
Is Euro Character Included in Tilde Fonts? Euro sign has been included in fonts for Windows. Its code is 0x80 / 0128 in CE, Baltic and Western code tables and 0x88/0136 in Cyrillic code table, 0x20AC as a Unicode number. In most cases it should be available from keyboard by pressing CTRL+ALT+E. On the Macintosh, Euro is not part of Apple Central European code table. Since Tilde fonts comply with industry standards, Euro in not part of Apple CE fonts. Euro has been included Apple Cyrillic code table lately with its code 0xFF it has replaced the old Currency sign. It has not been added to Macintosh Cyrillic fonts, but it can be appended upon request. How do I Decide whether to use Fonts in PostScript or TrueType Format? TrueType fonts are supported by both Macintosh and Windows operating system. It means you can install the fonts and use them right away. Tilde recommends the use of TrueType fonts in MS Windows because of benefits of large character set and Unicode support. PostScript format is a preferred choice when working with text in EPS images since PostScript fonts can be embedded in EPS files. For long PostScript format was the only choice when working with PostScript output devices such as RIPs, Imagesetters, etc. However, lately the situation is changing and more print shops do not mind using TrueType fonts in published documents. Since PostScript fonts can hold a code table of 256-characters, the Unicode-related technologies do not work in Windows MS Office applications, text is treated as symbols and it is not spelled. To use PostScript fonts, the user needs a PostScript font rasterizer. In most cases Adobe Type Manager known as ATM is used to render fonts on screen and on non-PostScript printers. In MS Windows, what is the Difference between Unicode Fonts and non-Unicode Fonts?  Until
recently fonts and applications used one byte to address
each character in a font. Thus no more than 256 characters could be addressed in
a font. You needed one font
for Russian language and another one for German or Czech language, for example.
Since the advent of Windows 95 and later operating systems, fonts with extended character sets have been supported both by the operating system and by applications. The newer MS Office applications let you choose a font and switch the languages within the same font freely. Other applications use fonts with 256 character code tables via virtual fonts that Windows system created from Unicode fonts using font substitutions. In MS Windows, for the older applications to access the large character sets of Unicode fonts, the operating system can generate derivated fonts with 256-character code table from the large WGL4 Unicode fonts. For that to happen, font substitution records must be made for each virtual font to be created. They are stored in [FontSubstitutes] group in win.ini file or the system registry. E.g., a record Swiss TL Cyr,204=Swiss TL,204 means that a Cyrillic font "Swiss TL Cyr" will show up in the font list generated from the physical font Swiss TL. 
At setup time font Tilde Fonts, if the user chooses to install Unicode fonts, the setup wizard will make the user specify which codepages he wants activated. Beware: Windows 95 and Windows 98 keeps font substitution records in win.ini file. Size of this file should not exceed 64 Kb, otherwise last font substitutions in the list will not work. Get familiarized with the meaning of font substitution records and keep out the records that you do not need. |
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