Type tools & type users …
John Hudson will demonstrate the limitations of the popular Type-1 fonts format and explain the benefits of the OpenType format to font users and developers.
The emphasis of the presentation will be on OpenType Layout features and lookups, and how they interract to provide a flexible model for ‘glyph processing’. John will examine the layout features and lookup structures in a demo font (a prototype OT version of Jean-François Porchez’s Le Monde Livre Classic), using Microsoft’s Visual OpenType Layout Tool (VOLT).
Wm Ross Mills will then demonstrate how to build an OpenType font from existing Type-1 sources using Fontlab 4.0.
Wm Ross Mills and John Hudson are cofounders of Tiro Typeworks, Vancouver, Canada. As type designers and font technology consultants, they have contributed to international font and software development projects for Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Linotype Library and, recently, for the government and aboriginal
land claims corporation of the Arctic territory of Nunavut. In addition to designing original typefaces and extending clients’ existing fonts for additional scripts and languages, Mills and Hudson present articles, lectures and workshops on multiscript typography and font technology. In 2001, they accepted ATypl's invitation to chair the revived Technology Committee.
Wm Ross Mills and John Hudson are cofounders of Tiro Typeworks, Vancouver, Canada. As type designers and font technology consultants, they have contributed to international font and software development projects for Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Linotype Library and, recently, for the government and aboriginal
land claims corporation of the Arctic territory of Nunavut. In addition to designing original typefaces and extending clients’ existing fonts for additional scripts and languages, Mills and Hudson present articles, lectures and workshops on multiscript typography and font technology. In 2001, they accepted ATypl's invitation to chair the revived Technology Committee.
John Hudson 
Wm Ross Mills