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Jeremy, 

      Does Adobe update their typefaces annually?




This is my take on this: Note that I'm still using PS fonts created in the late 1980s and early 1990s on my Mac without a hassle.) There have been a handful of minor "updates"; the most significant had to do with the way Optima and Eras were originally cut, as they originally displayed the fonts differently depending upon device resolution. (Optima's graceful tapering strokes and Eras' 3� slant were not seen onscreen; only in high-resolution print.)

Another change I'm aware of is the addition of the euro � with all recent fonts. And at least one technology was unfortunately short lived (multiple masters). OpenType fonts have vastly expanded the range of available glyphs included in a single font, and have rolled in formerly separate expert, alternate, OS, swash representations of the font. There may have been a few minor fixes to a few OT fonts, and a few months ago there was an animated discussion in these forums about some incorrect spacing issues when setting text in Adobe's Garamond Premier Pro in Classsical Greek for which there should be an update at some point.

But annual updates? No. Minor fixes from time to time, sometimes. That said, I'm not sure if there is any sort of "subscription" agreement with the purchase of the Font Folio disk which provides new fonts or fixes to old fonts (if any). Some new fonts, such as Brioso Pro Opticals and Garmond Premier Pro have been bundled with other software, such as the Creative Suite.

Is there a particular concern for your question?

Neil

It's certainly true that we do not update our typefaces annually or anything like that. It is also true that we are preparing a minor update of our entire type library right now. However, few of the things we are twiddling with will have any impact on the average user. The biggest changes will be a few more fonts supporting arbitrary fractions, and redoing contextual substitutions in a way that will be compatible with WPF applications (when any of those exist that use such features).

We haven't announced any ship date on this, and it's still a fair way off.

Regards,

T

Neil--
The reason for this forum question is:
My creative director has owned his own agency for several years and has bought the Adobe type collection several times over for clients and his own company. The main reason for this was to guarantee that all computers were using the same typeface sets and had proper licenses for them. (Not Postscript on some workstations and Open Type on others.)

Now at my company, he was concerned about updating fonts at 8 workstations only to need to do it again very soon for font differences.

However, after reading this feedback I don't think there is a major concern once we go with the Open Type Folio.

Thanks, Jeremy.

Neil