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Do you have news you would like to publish? If so enter it using our news form. ReviewsRewindDoes your granny always tell you / That the old ones are the best? The corporate design robotIf it's a layout robot with a database behind it, Peter van Blokland must be involved somewhere. What the X?Confused about XML? You will be... eBook: structure and surface in a sublime marriage or all mouth and no trousers?Thursday's eBook forum brought together the developers of this small and surprisingly usable technology with typographic designers and font developers. Nick Shinn: Typography Is DeadNick Shinn, in what will probably turn out to be the best session of this year's ATypI, kept a very strong hold on the audience while going through an amazing series of researched illustrations of typography and advertisement over the past 110 years. FreeType will destroy the world!David Turner is to FreeType what Linus is to Linux. David is a software engineer by trade, who for the last few years has devoted his free time to working on an open source font rasterizer known as FreeType. John Hudson - Managing Glyph SetsA summary of John Hudson's Font Technology Forum presentation. Font tools sessionOn Wednesday the world's leading font and tools developers met at the Copenhagen Graphics Institute to discuss and demo font tools and XML font work. Photos by Peter Lofting. Font Technology Forum 2001What went on at the FTF Font tools sessionMore images Peter Lofting's SKSK Adobe's Phinney: More OpenType in InDesignThomas Phinney - OpenType evangelist demo's OpenType support in InDesign version 'X' Adobe's Lemon: Font spec's are a good idea!In his font technology forum presentation Adobe's David Lemon addressed the question 'Why font specifications?' Pay for font functionalityA quick note on the afternoon session at the eBooks seminar |