Font technical notes

1. Adobe Type 1 Font Format (PDF, 459k) Version 1.1 02/93
2. Type 1 Font Format Supplement #5015  (PDF, 225k) (supersedes #5047 and #5086) 5/15/94
3. Adobe Font Metrics File Format Specificationt #5004  (PDF, 238k) Version 4.1 10/9/97
4. Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) Specification #5005  (PDF, 84k) Version 2.2 3/31/92
5. Adobe Binary Screen Font Files Specification #5006  (PDF, 41k) Version 2.0 3/31/92
6. The Type 42 Font Format Specification #5012 (PDF, 159k) 7/31/98
7. Adobe Standard Cyrillic Font Specification #5013  (PDF, 336k) 2/18/98
8. Sonata® Font Design Specification #5045  (PDF, 40k) 3/31/92
9. The Compact Font Format Specification #5176  (PDF, 510k) 12/04/03
10. The Type 2 Charstring Format #5177  (PDF, 194k) 3/16/00
11. CID-Keyed sfnt Font File Format for the Macintosh, version 2.0 #5180  (PDF, 166k) 2/12/97

1. Macintosh FOND Resources #0091  (PDF, 106k) 3/31/92
2. Supporting Downloadable PostScript® Language Fonts #5040 (PDF, 87k) 3/31/92
3. The StemSnap Hint Operator for Type 1 Font Programs #5049 (PDF, 32k) 3/31/92
4. Supporting Fonts in the PostScript Language Environment #5075  (PDF, 125k) 3/31/92
5. Font Naming Issues #5088  (PDF, 182k)
6. Glyph Naming #5098 12/17/98 Superseded - see Adobe Glyph List Specification
7. Adobe Font Name Reference Table #5090  (PDF, 469k) 1/29/98
8. Designing Multiple Master Typefaces #5091  (PDF, 3.3M) 9/7/95
9. Bar Code Font Vendor List #5096  (PDF, 27k) 9/25/98
10. PostScript 3 Core Font Set Overview #5609  (PDF, 30k) 10/9/97
11. Font Embedding Guidelines  (PDF, 262k)

1. CMap Resources open source project at Open @ Adobe
2. Adobe CMap and CID Font Files Specification #5014 (PDF, 530k) 10/08/96 Version 1.0
3. The Adobe-Japan1-6 Character Collection #5078 (PDF, 10.3M) 2/15/08
4. The Adobe-GB1-5 Character Collection #5079 (PDF, 15.2M) 1/24/12
5. The Adobe-CNS1-6 Character Collection #5080 (PDF, 9.5M) 1/12/12
6. CID-Keyed Font Technology Overview #5092 (PDF, 111k) 9/12/94
7. The Adobe-Korea1-2 Character Collection #5093 (PDF, 6.8M) 1/12/12
8. Adobe CJK Character Collections and CMaps for CID-Keyed Fonts #5094 (PDF, 579k) 2/28/07
9. Adobe-Japan2-0 Character Collection for CID-Keyed Fonts #5097 (PDF, 2.7M) 5/27/03 (deprecated; superseded by Adobe-Japan1-6)
10. Developing CMap Resources for CID-Keyed Fonts #5099 (PDF, 275k) 3/15/12
11. CID-Keyed Font Installation for PostScript File Systems #5174 (PDF, 37k) 8/96
12. CID-Keyed Font Installation for ATM™ Software #5175 (PDF, 61k) 3/18/98
13. Building PFM Files for PostScript-Language CJK Fonts #5178 (PDF, 140k) 1/10/97
14. CID-Keyed sfnt Font File Format for the Macintosh, version 2.0 #5180 (PDF, 166k) 12/15/97
15. Application Support for PostScript CJK Fonts #5640 (PDF, 172k) 12/15/97
16. Enabling PDF Font Embedding for CID-Keyed Fonts #5641 (PDF, 47k) 7/07/98
17. SING Glyphlet Production: Tips, Tricks & Techniques #5148 (PDF, 633k) 8/02/06
18. OpenType-CID/CFF CJK Fonts: 'name' Table Tutorial #5149 (PDF, 156k) 08/05/2010
19. Special-Purpose OpenType Japanese Font Tutorial: Kazuraki #5901 (PDF, 2.9M) 05/10/2010
20. Building JIS2004-Savvy OpenType Fonts (TAR, 3MB) 10/31/07

Font Metrics for PDF Core 14 Fonts

1. Mac (SIT/HQX: 175k)
2. Win (ZIP: 125k)
3. Unix (TAR: 640k)

CMaps for PDF CJK Fonts

1. Chinese Traditional (ZIP: 372k)
2. Japanese (ZIP: 228k)
3. Korean (ZIP: 252k)