OCR-A Std Read Me

This document contains late-breaking product information, updates, and troubleshooting tips.

Minimum system requirements and font installation instructions
Font versions
Family information
Release Notes
Known issues
Customer care
Other resources

Minimum system requirements and font installation instructions

For information on minimum system requirements and font installation, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_fontinstall_en.

Font versions

To check that you have the correct font file, compare the font version of your font file to the font version provided in the Release Notes section below.

Family information

History

In 1968, American Type Founders produced OCR-A, one of the first optical character recognition typefaces to meet the criteria set by the U.S. Bureau of Standards. The design is simple so that it can be read by a machine, but it is slightly more difficult for the human eye to read. OCR-A follows the 1981 standard set by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), X-3.17-1981 (size I). The same design is also specified for the German DIN 66008 standard. OCR-B was designed in 1968 by Adrian Frutiger for Monotype. This design pushes the limits of the optical reader, but is easier for people to read. OCR-B’s construction follows the ISO 1073/II-1976 (E) standard, with 1979 corrections (letterpress design, size I). Both OCR-A and OCR-B have “alternate” versions, which have the standard ISO-Adobe^® character set instead of the more limited OCR character set.

Menu Names And Style Linking

The fonts in this family have no style links: none are a bold or italic variant of another.

You should note that selecting a style option such as bold or italic with any of these faces will either have no effect, or result in programmatic bolding or slanting of the base font, which will usually produce inferior screen and print results.

Release Notes

For all fonts of family OCR A Std: version 2.064 created on Thu Jun 23 16:46:02 2011.

version 2.063 created 2011/06/23

TrueType fonts now have the same vertical metrics as the OpenType^® fonts.

version 2.062 created 2011/04/01

Added Windows platform name ID 8- Manufacturer.
Added TT version, revised the zones, outline adjustments in Ntilde, hinted & generated TrueType.

version 2.056 created 2010/12/17

Added code at end of name ID 3 'Unique Name' to indicate licensing foundry.
Remove deprecated ForceBold keyword from CFF table.
Update OS/2 table to version 4: add WPF names name ID 21 and 22 to name table, if needed.

version 2.036 created 2009/07/28

Added Windows platform name ID 8 - Manufacturer.

version 2.015 created 2007/08/16

Release for Adobe^® Font Folio^® 11
Added superior alternates for lowercase a and o.
Added glyphs: a.superior as duplicate of ordfeminine; o.superior as duplicate of ordmasculine.
Changed substitutions in 'ordn' and 'sups' from ordinals to these new alternates.
Added legacy superior numbers.
Added glyphs: onesuperior, twosuperior, threesuperior as duplicates of one.superior, two.superior, three.superior.
Added legacy f-ligature characters.
Added glyphs: fi as duplicate of f_i; fl as duplicate of f_l.
Add new glyphs to appropriate kern classes.
Added 'dlig' feature.
Added 'dlig' feature with ligature substitutions for standard f-ligatures "f_i" and "f_l".
Added uni2215 (divisionslash) to 'slash' context in 'frac' feature.
Renamed litre glyph "afii61289" to "uni2113".
Added glyph "zero.slash".
Added 'zero' feature.
Added 'zero' feature with substitution for zero to zero.slash.
Updated legal notices (trademark and copyright) for accuracy. Amended, changed and deleted as necessary. Ensured 'Notice' field in CFF fontinfo dictionary is the union of copyright and trademark notices in OTF 'name' table.
Added uni2010 (hyphen2).
Added 'size' feature containing a design size value.
Add default language system.
OpenType language system coverage for script 'dflt' and language 'DFLT' was added.
Removed four.denominator and two.denominator, which shouldn't have been in there.
Re-hinted all faces.
Added 'salt' and 'zero' features to 'aalt'.

version 1.040 created 2002/10/12

First release as OpenType.

Known issues

Some glyphs in the font cannot be accessed unless you are using an OpenType compatible application.

Customer care

Customer Service
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Support Plan Options and Technical Resources
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Other resources

Adobe Type Showroom
Index page for all family Read Me files

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created 2013 Jan 14