Collaborative Type Design Experiment

Some readers might like to know that the whiteboard is still being used.

Illustrations appear and then get changed.

http://blogs.adobe.com/collabmethods/2007/11/testing_the_first_public_cocom.html

Yesterday, I was reading the following item.

Arial is on this computer, though Helvetica is not.

However, the whiteboard offers both Arial and Helvetica in its menu for the Text Tool.

However, I have been unable to display on the whiteboard the differences mentioned in the article. I am wondering if that is because Helvetica is not installed on this computer.

William Overington

23 January 2008

I have noticed two errors in Whiteboard Venetian version 0.08.

There are small contours a long way below the baseline in each of m and r.

I have now produced Whiteboard Venetian version 0.081, which is a copy of Whiteboard Venetian version 0.08 from which those two contours have been removed.

I have uploaded the new version to the web.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/WVENETIA.TTF

A reader who has the 0.08 version and who wishes to archive it may like to consider changing the name of that file from WVENETIA.TTF to become WVENETIA008.TTF.

William Overington

28 January 2008

There is now an italic version of the Whiteboard Venetian font. It has not been designed using new artwork. It has been produced by automated transformation of the glyphs using the FontCreator 5.6 program.

There are some notes about this in a post in the following thread.

The direct link to the font is as follows.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/WVENETII.TTF

William Overington

10 March 2008

As some readers know, I like sometimes to draw experimental artwork using the following facility.

http://blogs.adobe.com/collabmethods/2007/11/testing_the_first_public_cocom.html

Recently, when trying to load the page so as to draw some artwork, I have found that the page will not load: the page appears to start to load, yet it never gets to the grey background with the toolbox on it.

However, some time ago, I had to reload Flash onto the computer here and that may perhaps be something to do with it. However, I have tried altering various settings and the web page still does not load.

I am wondering if the web page has perhaps had so many items added to it that the system has jammed or perhaps has gone wrong for some other reason.

Could some readers possibly try the above link and say whether they can get the page to load please?

William Overington

24 April 2008

It fails to load here too.

Thank you.

I shall try to report it to Adobe.

William