Jarno Lukkarila Type Foundry - Support

Font Files. Jarno Lukkarila Type Foundry offers all fonts in OpenType and PostScript (type 1) formats. Our normal OpenType, Mac and Windows PostScript fonts include similar character sets. In our policy, the prices between them are also the same. Our standard character set supports all Western and Northern European languages. We use MS Windows 1252 Western (ANSI) character encoding for Windows PostScript fonts and MacOS Roman character encodings for Mac PostScript fonts. See a picture of our standard character set on Technical page.

OpenType
OpenType is a new cross-platform font file format developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft. The same .otf font file works on MacOS 8.6, 9 and OS X, Linux and Windows computers. OpenType fonts can be printed from PostScript and non-PostScript printers. Each font consists of one file. OpenType fonts can be installed and used alongside PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts.

OpenType Pro (not yet available)
This is the same OpenType format, but includes wider character set and varying OpenType layout features. This means that a single font file may include all glyphs from Regular Otf, Regular LF and Regular Small Caps fonts for example. Different alphabets like Latin, Cyrillic and Greek as well as wider selection of accented alphabets may be included into same OpenType Pro font. This also means that the pricing of OpenType Pro fonts is different from that of “normal” PostScript and OpenType fonts.

The suffix “Pro” is often used to indicate fonts with expanded character sets. However, there is no single standard for what these Pro fonts consist of.

PostScript Type 1
Since it was published in the mid-1980s PostScript Type 1 has been the most preferred font format in the graphic arts and publishing industries (International Standards Organization outline font standard, ISO 9541). It still has a strong presence alongside OpenType nowadays.

PostScript fonts do not work cross-platform. Both Mac and Windows use their own PostScript fonts. If you want to purchase PostScript fonts, make sure you select either Mac or Windows files according to your operating system. PostScript fonts need a PostScript-supported printer to print out correctly. Each font contains two parts, the outline file and the bitmap font (suitcase). These files have to be saved into same folder. We use MS Windows 1252 Western (ANSI) character encoding for Windows PostScript fonts and MacOS Roman character encoding for Mac PostScript fonts.

PostScript Type 1 was developed by Adobe Systems. Type 1 fonts need a PostScript language interpreter such as Adobe Type Manage® to look right and print out correctly. ATM technology is integrated into Windows 2000, Windows XP and Mac OS X. For older operating systems you need to download free ATM Light software from Adobe’s website.

Download ATM Light from:

www.adobe.com/products/atmlight/index.html

More about OpenType:

www.adobe.com/type/opentype