[X4U] Font Libraries [TAN]

[Brett Conlon]

G'day all,

I'm under a very quick deadline to sort out a Font library purchase.

Anyone recently researched what is available and what is the best offering 
for the best value?

We're submitting justifications for budget spending and I was looking at 
the Linotype Gold library (20 User-which is what we're after) but it is 
still PostScript T1. My preference is OpenType (single file - new 
standard) but I'll resort to T1 if the value is blazingly for going that 
way.

The Adobe FontFolio9 library (T1) holds less fonts for a greater price 
(also only 10 user), however, Adobe does offer an OpenType library but has 
a reduced number of fonts again from their Folio9 library. But, is this 
because they have merged families into one OpenType font, eg. four 
PostScript T1 Times variants merged to one OpenType Times that has all 
four variants inside it?

I also realise that even though they may offer OpenType fonts, they may 
not have the extended character-set added yet.

I was kinda hoping that the font vendors would have had the merge to 
OpenType all sorted out by now. It seems like a SLOW race to me.

Anyway, perhaps someone else has already done their homework on all this 
and has some great suggestions.

Many thanks,

Coj

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