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saadat | 3 years ago | on: Adobe plans to make Photoshop on the web free to everyone

Well, there's Scribus, which may or may not suit your desktop publishing needs: https://www.scribus.net/

saadat | 3 years ago | on: System Font Stack

The CSS property leading-trim [1][2] is designed to solve this alignment problem (among others). However, it's still at the Working Draft stage, so it's going to take a while before browsers start supporting it.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-inline-3/#leading-trim [2]: https://medium.com/microsoft-design/leading-trim-the-future-...

saadat | 6 years ago | on: Rethinking Files

Or use the Reader View/Reader mode in Firefox/Safari.

saadat | 7 years ago | on: What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life

That link omits some parts of the essay. Complete version here: http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

saadat | 8 years ago | on: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

Look at the PDF's "PDF Producer", "Creator", or "Application" metadata fields in a PDF reader application.

saadat | 9 years ago | on: Beautiful Racket v1.0

Are you using Firefox? I see the same black box in Firefox too (which is actually an SVG inside an <img> tag), but in Chrome, it renders fine: https://imgur.com/a/NdvKN

saadat | 9 years ago | on: Google Noto Fonts

Monotype has published a case study too: http://www.monotype.com/resources/case-studies/more-than-800...

saadat | 9 years ago | on: Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts

Google's announcement [1] about OT font variations mentions that a CSS proposal is in the works:

> Together with other browser makers, we’re already working on a proposal to extend CSS fonts with variations. Once everyone agrees on the format, we’ll support it in Google Chrome.

[1] http://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-opentyp...

saadat | 10 years ago | on: Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a Glance

The same is true for Urdu as well, so if you want to distinguish Urdu from Persian: look for a backward moving (i.e. towards the right) horizontal stroke at the end of a word. This stroke will always run under the preceding letters of the word, except that some dots of the preceding letters may be moved beneath the stroke in order to avoid collision.