Thomas “my other car is a sans serif” Phinney on fonts, typography & text. Geeky troubleshooting and info for font developers and users. Consulting & expert witness for fonts & typography.« Video: OpenType, cross-app text, Flash, etc.
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- Worst Presentation EVAR
I almost didn’t blog about this, because it was probably the most messed-up presentation I’ve done in the last many years. I was trying to do a PDF-based presentation interleaved with a demo in InDesign, but my keyboard stopped working completely when I was in full-screen mode in Acrobat… meaning I also had no way to get out of Acrobat to do the demo! So I had to reboot, re-order my presentation on the fly, and improvise talking through from memory some stuff I had intended to do with accompanying slides, while waiting for my computer to complete the reboot and then for InDesign to launch (which last took 3x as long because I had rebooted while it was running). I also had a cold, so I am clearing my throat every 30 seconds. On top of that, the guy doing the presentation in the next room was REALLY LOUD and somehow his presentation included loud heavy metal music…. Which you can’t hear it on the recording, but I and the audience could hear it very clearly, and it was seriously distracting. Aaargh!
All of which threw me off my pace a bit, even if I seem to be handling it with aplomb on the recording. So even after I’m out of the part where my computer is totally hosed, I’m not at my best.
That being said there’s still some decent stuff in several spots of this AdobeTV recording from Adobe MAX, November 2008. See below for key bits to watch:
- Preserving OpenType alternate glyphs across apps: 5:25 – 8:20 (audio only)
- OpenType typography features: 13:30 – 35:40 (video)
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Just don’t expect me to be at my scintillating best on this one, okay?
One commentto “Video: OpenType, cross-app text, Flash, etc.”
awwww! don’t feel bad! you did the best thing you could! it was bad luck! good luck next time 😉