CID fonts

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CID Fonts (also known as, CID-keyed Fonts, CID-based Fonts) are a form of Type 1, PostScript font, capable of addressing large amount of glyphs. They were developed to support non-Roman character sets as these comprise more characters than the Roman typefaces that make up most western fonts. These include Identity-H and Identity-V fonts.

Adobe developed the CID-keyed font format to solve the problems in OCF/Type 0 fonts, for addressing the complex Asian-language (CJK) encoding and very large character set issues.

CID-keyed font format can be used with the Type 1 font format for standard CID-keyed fonts, or Type 2 for CID-keyed OpenType fonts.

[edit] See also

• Adobe Systems
• Ghostscript
• Portable Document Format
• Scene description language
• Vector graphics
• Font
• Computer font
• Display PostScript
• PostScript Printer Description (PPD) drivers.
• PostScript FAQ at Wikibooks.

[edit] External links

• Adobe CID fonts