FAQ

• Cross-platform
• No limitation on print resolution
• Extraction of outline is allowed
• Embedding into PDF is allowed
• Proportional alternative metrics are included
• Not necessary to use printer font by dynamic downloading of subset font in time of printing (Dynamic downloading is a technology to download subset font and documents onto PostScript-driven printers just in time of printing.)
• Easy-to-handle font data because all features and glyphs are in only 1 file.

• Windows 8.1/10
• Mac OS X/macOS

• Required to install Keyboard driver and Japanese IME. To convert environment into Japanese, need additionally install Japanese language pack (or Multilingual User Interface). For more information of keyboard driver, Japanese IME and language pack, please contact Microsoft Corporation.

Mac OSX

• No additional software is necessary.

Basic: Ultra Light / Extra Light t / Light / Regular / Medium / Bold / Heavy
Condensed: Ultra Light / Extra Light / Light / Regular / Medium / Bold
Compressed: Ultra Light / Extra Light / Light / Regular / Medium

Latin fonts have 3 variations of widths (Basic/Condensed/Compressed) and each width has italic variants and weights listed below. 36 fonts in total.

Basic: Ultra Light / Extra Light / Light / Regular / Medium / Bold / Heavy
Basic Italic: Ultra Light / Extra Light / Light / Regular / Medium / Bold / Heavy
Condensed: Ultra Light / Extra Light / Light / Regular / Medium / Bold
Condensed Italic: Ultra Light / Extra Light / Light / Regular / Medium / Bold
Compressed: Ultra Light / Extra Light / Light / Regular / Medium
Compressed Italic: Ultra Light / Extra Light / Light / Regular / Medium

TP Mincho has 3 variations of contrast (High/Middle/Low) and each width has 6 weights listed below. 18 fonts in total.
Extra Light / Light / Regular / Medium / Bold / Heavy

Please refer to the list of characters from;

https://typeproject.com/en/fonts/axis-latin-pro

Japanese font (Std/StdN) almost fully covers 30 languages shown below. Japanese font based on Adobe Japan 1.3 covers all ISO-8859-1 proportional characters and Š, š, Ž, ž, Œ, œ, Ÿ. Then AXIS Font Japanese version can be used as multilingual font when you compose text using proportional characters. However, not all corresponding half-width characters are included, only Latin font is covered by half-width characters.

Japanese (main script and covers JIS X 0208:1997) / English/ Icelandic (íslenska) / Irish (Gaelige) / Afrikaans (Afrikaans) / Albanian (Gjuha Shqipe) / Italian (Italiano) / Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) / Estonian (Eesti keel) / Occitan (lenga d’òc) / Dutch (Nederlands : U+0132 “IJ” and U+0133 “ij” shall be divided into I/i and J/j) / Oromo (Oromiffa) / Galician (Galego) / Swedish (Svenska) / Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) / Spanish (Español) / Swahili (Kiswahili) / Danish (Dansk) / German (Deutsch) / Norwegian (Bokmål) / Norwegian (Nynorsk) / Finnish (Suomi) / Faroese (Føroyskt) / French (Française) / Brasilian Portuguese (Português Brasileiro) / Breton (Brezhoneg) / Portuguese (Português) / Latin (Latina : Classical orthography, without vowels with macron) / Luxembourg (Lëtzebuergesch) / Rhaeto-Romance languages (Rhaetian) / Walon (Walloon)

*Full width version of Greek uppercase/lowercase (24 characters for each, excluding ending form of sigma) and Cyrillic (Russian) uppercase/lowercase (33 characters for each) are included as JIS Row6 and Row 7 (These characters are defined as full width in JIS spec)

Japanese font (ProN) covers 78 languages shown below.

Japanese (main script and covers JIS X 0213:2004 and partial variant characters for JIS X 0208:1997) / English / Afrikaans / Albanian / Asu / Basque / Bemba / Bena / Brasilian Potruguese / Breton / Breton / Cape Verdean Creole / Catalan / Chiga / Congo Swahili / Danish / Dholuo / Dutch / Embu / Estonian / Faroese / Filipino / Finnish / French / Galician / German / Gikuyu / Greenlandic / Gusii / Hawaiian / Icelandic / Indonesian / Italian / Kalenjin / Kamba / Kernowek / Kinyarwanda / Kirundi / Latin / Luhya / Luxembourg / Machame / Makonde / Malagasy / Malay / Manx / Mauritian Creole / Meru / Nkore / North Ndebele / Norwegian (Bokmål) / Norwegian (Nynorsk) / Occitan / Oromo / Portuguese / Rhaeto-Romance language / Romansh / Rombo / Rwa / Samburu / Sango / Scottish Gaelic / Sena / Shambala / Shona / Soga / Somali / Spanish / Swahili / Swedish / Swiss German / Taita / Teso / Tonga / Tswana / Vunjo / Walloon / Welsh / Zulu”

Latin font covers 56 languages shown below.
On FontBook application of Mac OS X, Greek appears as covered language for AXIS Latin fonts, but no Greek characters (excluding mathematical Greek signs) are included. To avoid the bug of Illustrator/InDesign CS2 or lower not showing several weights of AXIS Font in their font menu, pseud-bit for Greek should be marked. AXIS Latin fonts don’t cover both Poliphonic and monotonic Greek.

English (main script) /Afrikaans / Albanian / Basque / Brasilian Portuguese / Breton / Cape Verdean Creole / Catalan / Cornish / Croatian (in latin alphabet writing) / Czech / Danish / Dutch / Esperanto / Estonian / Faroese / Filipino / Finnish / French / Galician / German / Greenlandic / Hawaiian / Hungarian (Dz shall be divided into D and z) / Icelandic / Indonesian / Irish / Italian / Latin / Latvian / Lithuanian / Luxenbourg / Malay / Maltese / Manx / Mauritian Creole / Norwegian (Bokmål) / Norwegian (Nynorsk) / Occitan / Oromo / Polish / Portuguese / Rhaeto-Romance languages / Romanian / Romansh / Sango / Scottish Gaelic / Slovak / Slovene / Somali / Spanish / Swahili / Swedish / Swiss German / Tswana / Waloon / Welsh

* Adobe Illustrator 8.0 or lower are not compatible with OpenType. Alternative glyphs and alternative metrics are not accessible from Adobe Illustrator 9.0 and 10.0.

** Microsoft Office from the versions of 2010 (Windows) and 2011(Macintosh) are officially capable with some OpenType typographical features, however, the lower versions are not officially compatible with OpenType. The lower versions provisionally access OpenType as a variation of TrueType and almost all of typographic features are not accessible. Quotation marks (ex Latin left/right quotations) are handled not by typographic feature of OpenType but by Office itself, and this behavior can be altered by disabling concerning checkbox.

Windows Vista/7

1. Quit all active applications.
2. Mount CD-ROM of the fonts or locate deflated folder of the archive downloaded.
3. Open Start menu and select “Control Panel”, then open “Font” in control panel window. (In case of Windows Vista, control panel may set to category view. In this case open “Font” in “Appearance and Personalization”).
4. Drag & Drop the font located in the instruction #2 into font folder, then the font(s) are now installed and will appear in the font menus of your applications. Launch your applications and check the font name(s) on the font menu of your applications.

* Log in as Administrator to install on Windows Vista/7. If you log in as specific user, no other users can use installed font by access privilege.

Windows 8

1. Quit all active applications.
2. Click “Desktop” panel in the Start Screen, and mount CD-ROM of the Font or locate deflated folder of the archive downloaded.
3. Move cursor to the top right on the screen or swipe from right side to center on touch screen. Click/tap the “Settings” on bottom of menu.
4. Click/tap “Control panel” on “Settings”
5. Click/tap “Appearance and Personalization” of control panel window.
6. Click/ tap “Font” to open font folder
7. Drag and drop for install from the folder you opened at instruction #2.

* Log in as Administrator to install on Windows 8. If you log in as specific user, no other users can use installed font by access privilege.

Mac OS 8.6 or more, and on the Classic environment of Mac OS X

1. Quit all active applications excluding Finder.
2. Mount CD-ROM of AXIS Font or locate deflated folder.
3. Open running system folder of Mac OS (or Classic system folder located in Classic system preference) and locate font folder in it.
4. Open Font folder, then drag and drop the font file(s) in it. The font(s) are now installed and will appear in the font menus of your applications. Launch your applications and check the font name(s) on the font menu of your applications.

*ATM 4.6.1 Deluxe 4.6.1 or ATM Light 4.6.2 is required to use OpenType.

Mac OS X

1. Quit all active applications excluding Finder.
2. Mount CD-ROM of AXIS Font or locate deflated folder.
3. Locate your font folder;
   • For all users: locate Volume:Library:Fonts In this location all users can use the font(s).
   • For individual user: Volume:User name:Library:Fonts
     The font in this location can be used only by the specified user.
     * Please alter declined volume and folder names for your environment. On Mac OS X 10.7 or over “Volume:Users:user name:Library” is hidden as invisible and not directly accessible from Finder. Select “Move to folder” from “Go” menu of Finder, input “/Users/user name/Library” to make that folder temporary visible, then open “Fonts” inside it.
4. Open the font folder located in instruction #3, then drag and drop the font file(s) in it. The fonts are now installed and will appear in the font menus of your applications. Launch your applications and check the font name(s) on the font menu of your applications.

Windows Vista/7/8

1. On these environment OEM version of Adobe Type manager (without user interface) is installed by default and OpenType can be installed into system font folder like old TrueType. The access privilege of font file depends on the privilege of user’s performed installation of font file. If the installation is performed not by system administrative privilege but by generic user privilege, the font file is only accessible for the generic user performed installation. If you have necessity to allow all users to access the font file, delete font file from system font folder and then log off from generic user, and login again as system administrator to install font file.
2. In case that the sum of numbers of installed font exceed the limit of system or font cache is damaged, the fonts does not appear in font menu. Refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/880991/ja and adjust the amount of font file in font folder and font cache.
3. If fonts are not accessible after trying 1 and 2, the data concerning font access in registry would be damaged. Download fontreg utility from http://code.kliu.org/misc/fontreg/ and try to recover the registry after reading carefully ReadMe.txt inside the archive.

Mac OS 8.6 or more, and on Classic environment on Mac OS X

1. On these environments OpenType is recognized as a kind of TrueType by the help of ATM 4.6.2 or similar. When ATM is Off OpenType is not accessible from any applications. Be sure ATM is ON.
2. On these environments the upper limit number of Japanese fonts is 256 and the upper limit number of PostScript Japanese font (OCF/nakedCID/sfntCID/OpenType CFF) is 128. Furthermore the upper limit number of all font files in font folder is 512. Then remove unnecessary font and keep following conditions:
   • Amount of Japanese font files: under 256
   • Amount of Japanese “PostScript” font files: under 128
   • Total amount of fonts in font folder: under 512
3. In case of using Mac OS 8.6, the OS has bug in font management. Previously the updater for fixing this bug is downloadable from Apple’s website, however, at this time the updater is hidden and not downloadable. If possible update the OS to Mac OS 9.2.2 to solve the problem.
4. In case of using fonts in Classic environment of Mac OS X, the font folder which accessible from Classic environment is limited to Classic’s font folder.
   cf) http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2435?viewlocale=ja_JP
   * If the fonts are installed in the native font folder of Mac OS X, move them into Classic font folder.
5. If fonts are not accessible after trying all above, font cache (temporary glyph storage file) would be damaged. Locate your system font folder and open “Preferences” in it, delete following 2 files from preferences folder, then reboot Mac OS (or Classic environment).
   • FontAnnexFile
   • FontArbitrator Prefs

Mac OS X

1. ATM is not necessary because Mac OS X is designed to have capability of OpenType by default. Fonts are installed in:
   • In case of System specific fonts: /System/Library/Fonts (Users cannot install fonts in this
     folder)
   • In case of sharing the fonts by all users: /Library/Fonts
   • In case of having fonts by specific user: /Users/username/Library/Fonts
     * On Mac OS X 10.7 or over “Volume/Users/user name/Library” is hidden as invisible and not directly accessible from Finder. Select “Move to folder” from “Go” menu of Finder, input “/Users/user name/Library” to make that folder temporary visible, then open “Fonts” inside it. If the fonts are installed in user-specific font folder the fonts are not accessible from other users. If the fonts have to be shared by all users on system, install fonts in /Library/Fonts.
2. Font cache would be damaged.
   Download “Onyx” from http://www.titanium.free.fr/ and launch it.　Open “Font” tab in “Cleaning”, then clean up all font caches.

Windows Vista/7

1. Quit all active applications.
2. Open “Control Panel” from Start menu.
3. Open font folder in “Appearance and Personalization”.
4. Toggle view to “List” and select the font(s) you want to uninstall, right-click to show context menu, then select “Delete” from context menu.
5. Confirm the font(s) selected in instruction #4 are deleted.

Windows 8

1. Quit all active applications.
2. Click/tap “Desktop” on start screen, and move cursor to the top right on the screen or swipe from right side to center on touch screen. Click/tap “Settings” on bottom of the menu.
3. Click/tap “Control panel” on “Settings”
4. Click/tap “Appearance and Personalization” of control panel window.
5. Click/ tap “Font” to open font folder
6. Toggle view to “List” and select the font(s) you want to uninstall, right-click to show context menu, then select “Delete” from context menu.
7. Confirm the font(s) selected in instruction #6 are deleted.

Mac OS 8.6 or more, and on the Classic environment of Mac OS X

1. Quit all active applications excluding Finder.
2. Open running system folder of Mac OS (or Classic system folder located in Classic system preference) and locate font folder in it.
3. Open Font folder, select the font(s) you want to uninstall, and drag & drop them into trash. Select “Empty Trash” from “special” on menu bar to delete font file(s).
4. Reboot Macintosh. Now the font(s) are uninstalled.

* In case of utilizing fonts with font management utilities (ATM Deluxe, Extensis Suitcase etc.), please refer to the help file of respective utilities for uninstallation of font(s).

Mac OS X 10.0-10.8

1. Quit all active applications excluding Finder.
2. Locate your font folder;
   • For all users: locate Volume/Library/Fonts
   • For individual user: Volume/Users/user name/Library/Fonts
     * Please alter declined volume and folder names for your environment. On Mac OS X 10.7 or over “Volume/Users/user name/Library” is hidden as invisible and not directly accessible from Finder. Select “Move to folder” from “Go” menu of Finder, input “/Users/user name/Library” to make that folder temporary visible, then open “Fonts” inside it.
3. Open font folder located in instruction #2, select the font(s) you want to uninstall, then drag and drop AXIS Font file(s) into trash.
4. Select “Empty Trash” from “Finder” menu on menu bar to delete font file(s).

* In case of malfunction of fonts or font names on font menu of applications, download “Onyx” from http://www.titanium.free.fr/, open “Font” tab from “Cleaning”, delete font cache (temporary glyph storage file), then reboot Mac.

ex: AXIS Condensed Regular, AXIS Compressed Regular

Font file name, it display AXISCondensed/Compressed-weightName.otf

ex: AXISCondensed-Regular.otf, AXISCompressed-Regular.otf

AXIS Inc : axisfont@axisinc.co.jp

• Leasing, renting, sublicensing, distributing, reproducing the right to use of license
• Transferring the license without permission of Type Project or official resellers
• Copying font data over the limit of licensed number of CPU

The font format for AXIS Font and TP Mincho is OpenType font format, which is drawn up by Adobe Systems Incorporated and Microsoft Corporation.

OpenType is a kind of extended TrueType font format which for long have been used as de facto font format for PCs and device-embedded uses. OpenType can contain PostScript outline data and better support of typographic features.

The fonts with suffix “N” at the end of their character set identifier (like “StdN” and “ProN”) have many traditional ideographic characters (called “Kangxi-Dictionary-defined shapes”) inside, and the shapes are used by default in JIS2004 character specification.

For precise information of Adobe Japan character set specifications, please refer to;
http://www.adobe.com/jp/support/type/aj1-6.html
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5078.Adobe-Japan1-6.pdf

We intend the main purpose of AXIS Fonts is to be used on displays with anti-aliased rasterization and on commercial printing with very high resolution. If you are looking for pre-bitmapped glyphs for device-embedding uses, please contact us with sales@typeproject.com.

Historically saying, printer font is born to make the release speed of host machine from spooling and printing faster especially in combination with OCF/CID fonts for host machines and printer / image setter driven by interpreters of PostScript Level 2 or lower. There is no need of help of printer font when we use OpenType. If you use the printers / image setters listed below, please make outline before printing.

Japanese Font (AXIS Font/TP Mincho)

• Fully included : ISO-2022-JP、JIS C 6226-1978、JIS X 0201-1997、JIS X 0208:1983、JIS X 0208:1997、ISO 8859-1、Microsoft CP932、Apple MacJapanese
• Partially included : Unicode 3.0 (AXIS Font Std), 4.1 (TP Mincho StdN). 6.1 (AXIS Font ProN)

Latin Font (AXIS Latin Pro)

• Fully included: ISO (ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-15, ISO-8859-16), MSCP (CP1250, CP1252, CP1254, CP1257)
• Almost fully included: ISO (ISO-8859-10 (excluding only U+2015))
• Partially included: ISO（ISO-8859-14 (all excluding 14 old Gaelic characters [ḂḃḊḋḞḟṀṁṖṗṠṡṪṫ]), MSCP (CP1258(all excluding 10 codes [U+0300/U+0309/U+01A0/U+01AF/U+0303/ U+0301 /U+0323/ U+01A1/U+01B0/U+20AB])), Unicode 3.0

Common features for both Japanese fonts and Latin fonts:

• Pair kerning between Latin characters (*1)
• Permission of embedding subset font into PDF/EPS/AI/XPS
• Conversion of specific queue of characters into ligature characters

Features for only Japanese fonts:

• Proportional metrics (so called “Tsume” in Japanese)
• Character alternation between variant characters
• Alternation of specific characters into full width / half width / proportional width
• Character alternation between normal zero numeric and slashed zero numerics

The list below shows the correspondence of widths for each character ranges:

On PostScript printers and image setters, the documents with AXIS Font and/or TP Mincho can be printed by dynamically subsetted font downloading. In other hands, on printers/image setters driven by other printing systems the documents are rasterized as high density bitmap image of the contents displayed on host computers by printer drivers of those system, then those system also covered. If you use the printer/image setters listed below, please make outline before printing.

• To take outline of glyphs
• To make new glyphs using outlined glyph paths

“83pv-RKSJ-H” is a suffix (CMAP) to show that the font is based on “JIS1983 Partially Vertical Roman Kana Shift JIS Horizontal character mapping”. (83pv is used only on Mac OS7-9.2.2, then the documents were made on Mac OS 79.2.2). Though AXIS Font and TP Mincho are OpenType, in those older Mac OS (7-9.2.2) OpenType Japanese fonts were accessed as a kind of CID font data and the documents made on those OSs have the name of CID-accessed fonts as “font family name weight name CMAP name”. Once OpenType is accessed as CID font, alternative proportional metrics built in OpenType are ignored. Then the composition of characters would overflow or the spaces between characters would be so stuffed when you open the old document with manual kerning. To handle these data correctly on newer versions of applications, please check up how kerning is inserted and the alternative proportional metrics of OpenType affect the composition. Please refer to following documentations for the differences of use of information inside fonts:

http://www.adobe.com/jp/joc/design/guides/pdf/AICS6_text_convert.pdf (Japanese)
http://www.adobe.com/jp/joc/design/qa/page08.html (Japanese)

In opposite to this, in some situation an unnecessary white space would appear with Axis Font Condensed/Compressed Std, AXIS Font ProN and TP Mincho though the input character is proportional (like その “字” を). This occurs by the function of “interval between Japanese and Latin characters” which originates in the applications. In case of using Adobe InDesign/Illustrator or so, solve the to be suitable for your typographic structure like;

• alter the shape of quotation marks into “等幅全角字形” variants using glyph palette
• partially change the interval of Japanese and Latin characters into zero

In case of AXIS Font Japanese, to use Bold weight of Basic width, specify Regular weight first and then click “Bold” button. To use Bold weight of Condensed width, specify Medium weight first and then click “Bold” button.

With your request, we can rename the FitFont of your choice with some conditions.

It is available to develop Combined Font with other companies’ Latin fonts. The approval by the Latin font vendor/designer is necessary for combining the fonts. To request Combined Font with other font vendors, please send us an email at sales@typeproject.com.

Please note that Combined Font will not contain all the glyphs of the original Latin font. If you expect a font with non-standard specifications, please contact us for a custom font development at sales@typeproject.com.

Please note that Combined Font will not contain all the glyphs of the original Latin font. If you expect a font with non-standard specifications, pleasae contact us for a custom font developent at sales@typeproject.com.

TP Connect manages the number of machines in use with a license number. When you want to change the machine, delete registration first. To delete registration, refer to #11 “How can I manage the registered personal computer?”

Next, download TPManager in a new machine from here.
https://shop.typeproject.com/download/tpconnect.html

For the TPManager installation method and checking license number, refer to #7 “How can I install and use TPManager?” and #9 “How can I obtain a license number?”