OpenType is a new font format that gives you access to thousands of special characters within your page layout or illustration — providing the application supports the format. One application that does support OpenType is InDesign 2.0. With this software combination you can automatically insert ligatures and special accents without trudging off to specialty helper apps — or worse, through laborious trial and error.
And now that Adobe is releasing all its PostScript fonts in the OpenType format, it’s a good time learn how to use OpenType fonts in InDesign as seen in this tutorial from Adobe.
We’ve posted this story as a PDF file. All you do is click the “Add Pizazz to Your Text with OpenType Fonts” link to open the PDF file in your Web browser. You can also download the PDF to your machine for later viewing.
To open the PDF, you’ll need
Adobe Acrobat Reader.
This article was last modified on March 10, 2025
This article was first published on September 27, 2002
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