Unicode and OpenType

[Oz Springs]

It¹s great that Office 2004 offers Unicode. I wonder when Office will have
OpenType support as well. So far all I can see is InDesign and Mellel
supporting OpenType ­ so if I get anything in Word that needs those extra
glyphs I have to set them all in InDesign.

 

[John McGhie]

Yeah, we all wonder that. For what it's worth, it's not "Open Type" support
that's missing. My Mac is using OTF fonts quite happily.

It's support for the fancy extras in OTF, and that's up to ATSUI (Apple Type
Services for Unicode Interfaces).

ATSUI is an OS X component Microsoft does not have a lot of control over.

I assume that InDesign and Mellel are doing their own rendering, but Office
is not: it uses the system-supplied utility.

Cheers

It¹s great that Office 2004 offers Unicode. I wonder when Office will have
OpenType support as well. So far all I can see is InDesign and Mellel
supporting OpenType ­ so if I get anything in Word that needs those extra
glyphs I have to set them all in InDesign.

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