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Macworld , April, 2004 by Stone, Terri Read the full article with a Free Trial of HighBeam Research »

GONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN YOU KNEW WHAT YOU WERE getting when you bought a font--back when fonts could hold about 225 characters (PostScript Type 1s, for example). Now we`re in the era of OpenType fonts, which can contain tens of thousands of characters and even do tricks with these characters, such as automatically substituting one for another.

Some font companies charge more for these tricks. We don`t begrudge them the price hike--it does take more work to extend a font`s capabilities. But if a particular OpenType font looks and acts just like an

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