'..17 days until Tiger is available - Friday, April 29..'
> www.apple.com

This will come in handy...

Font Export
Easily package up a set of fonts needed by colleagues or service bureaus with just a few clicks.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatures/newfeatures.html

Si

I've seen at least one comment by a beta tester suggesting improved OS-level Opentype support. Any word on that?

I thought that was a golf post.
Tiger -- whatever next, ocelot?

>Easily package up a set of fonts needed by colleagues or service bureaus with just a few clicks.

I'm sure they will provide a "Font Alert", such as the one in InDesign's "Package" feature. Hopefully it will be more intimidating than that.

Any word on if Tiger supports classic applications? I couldn't find anything . . .

Stuart :D

Classic support has not changed (not noticeably anyway) from Panther (10.3.x) - Fog runs as Fog does.

There is one unannounced feature which will be quite significant to the Typophile crowd. I will be happy to discuss it the day Tiger ships....

T

"Any word on if Tiger supports classic applications? I couldn't find anything . . ."

That's the fog or FOG.......


1. See that:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spotlight/

2. Classic is not in the technical specifications for Tiger. Clasic support came with the hardware CD (and not with Panther.) Classic is just an application under OS X.

3. Apple kept the 68K emulator in Mac OS for years.

Interesting article here - http://www.publish.com/article2/0,1759,1786110,00.asp - seems to suggest that Adobe CS makes the OS choice irrelevant for creative professionals. Perhaps the widget thing is part of Apple�s attempt to win back a user base they�ve taken for granted?

> There is one unannounced feature which will be quite significant to the Typophile crowd. I will be happy to discuss it the day Tiger ships....

I sure hope it's better OS level OpenType support, the way that ATSUI fonts are supported, even.

"Interesting article here - http://www.publish.com/article2/0,1759,1786110,00.asp - seems to suggest that Adobe CS makes the OS choice irrelevant for creative professionals."

Only if viruses, worms, trojans, adware, spyware, registry corruptions, and a clumsy interface are irrelevant for creative professionals. ;)

(ducks)

I should have seen that coming ;-) Anyhow here's the opposing analysis of the 'report' for the Mac fans...

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=11335&Page=1&pagePos=6

> There is one unannounced feature which will be quite significant to the Typophile crowd. I will be happy to discuss it the day Tiger ships....

Today's the day. So, Thomas, what's the story?

For those who did not hear ...

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5689986.html

http://www.tigerdirect.com/

don't know the up-to-the-hour status.

Where was Jaguar two and a half years ago? They could've made a killing!

So, broadly speaking, the scoop is this:

OS X 10.4 ("Tiger") dynamically maps OpenType features to AAT features. So in theory, existing applications that support AAT will also see OpenType fonts working much the same way. You should be able to get OpenType small caps, ligatures, oldstyle figures, etcetera in Keynote and TextEdit. Apple has not yet implemented OpenType support for features needed to handle "complex script" languages such as Arabic and Indic, however.

I can't say we've tested Tiger's OpenType support here at Adobe - unfortunately, we've just been too swamped with other big projects that had similar schedules to Tiger (CS2, Garamond Premier, etc.). However, we are pleased to see Apple offering such support at the system level, broadening the base of OpenType support. Having Apple as an increasingly involved partner in the OpenType effort can only be good for third party developers and end users.

Regards,

T

Thomas Phinney
Program Manager
Fonts & Core Technologies
Adobe Systems

And what about Panther?

http://www.mgm.com/pinkpantherthemovie/

Thomas, that's exactly what I hoped you were going to say. Cool!

Just out of curiosity, why the big secret?

Thanks Thomas - That is indeed cool. Now if I only had a job so I could afford to upgrade.

Let me echo my thanks for sharing that, Thomas. If only my copy would hurry up and arrive! I'm salivating at the thought of creating smart directories that collect all my recent invoices, client proofs, project correspondence, articles with typography references, and so on.

Just tried this. It's great. Tiger has a lot of neat undiscovered features my favorite so far ... display rotation!

Garamond Premier is GREAT!!!

Garamond Premier is GREAT!!!

Garamond Premier may be great but isn't included with Tiger. Did you mean to post to another thread?

I installed Tiger yesterday, but I’ve noticed a couple things already. File server access is much faster in my office to my machine (Dual 1GHz G4 with 1gb RAM), than prior running under 10.3.x

The Widget thing is neat, but I think I’d prefer a different implementation. Also, there is not help documentation telling you how to add new widgets that you download. I can open them, and use them, but when they are closed they do not go back into the Widget bar. A simple “do you want to install this widget” dialog box that then moves the open widget to the correct library folder would have been great.

Other than that, Spotlight preforms nicely, and Mail 2 looks pretty good. More Apple user interface guidelines are broken (ie, Safari gets brushed metal, but Firefox does not, iCal is brushed metal, but other Apple programs are not), but that’s really just a small aesthetic complaint (but that is what design is all about right?).

Sean Glenn
Art Director
www.superunicorn.com

Re: OpenType at the system level… That’s great Thomas. I didn’t realize that.

Has anyone seen any improvements in FontBook (Apple’s buit in font manager)?

Font Book seems faster than in Panther.

I heard a rumor that there is a new font management software being released that will leave all the others in the dust. which could mean two things considering the source from which this came: (a) it will leave the other apps in the dust _or_ (b) it won’t. :^P

Sean,
Drag the widget(s) to the widget folder in your hard disk’s library folder