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Visual TrueType Resources

This page has been set up to provide links and resources for users of Microsoft Visual TrueType. For information about licensing the tool, see our Visual TrueType page.

Visual TrueType training notes and tutorials

Since 1997, leading type designers and font engineers have attended Visual TrueType training sessions at our offices and elsewhere. Updated training notes are reproduced here.

• Hinting italics using VTT
• Italic hinting examples
• From typeface to font file
• VTT training notes - updated for VTT 4.2
• Sample fonts - updated for VTT 4.2
• The raster tragedy at low resolution
• Frequently asked questions

VTT manuals and release notes

• download - VTT user manual and VTT Talk programming guide
  file type - Windows Word documents
  location - http://download.microsoft.com/
  file details - vttdoc.zip zip file - 512Kb - 14 November 1997

• download - VTT user manual and VTT Talk programming guide
  file type - Mac Word documents
  locations - current server | Redmond | Tokyo | London
  file details - MacVTTdocs.sit.hqx - 1.29MB - 9 March 1999

• Beat Stamm's Visual TrueType 4.2 release notes

VTT users community

An MSN community site has been set up for licensed users of VTT. Licensees are invited to join and contribute to discussion of the tool. The VTT 4.2.1 update is also available for download from the community site.

Last updated 4 November 2004.

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