Dave Opstad
David G. Opstad (born c. 1954) is a retired American
character encodings), leading to several breakthroughs. Opstad was a contributor to Unicode 1.0,[1][2][3] together with Joe Becker, Lee Collins
, Huan-mei Liao, and Nelson Ng.
Opstad spent much of his career in
quadratic Bézier curves
.
Opstad is named on several US
software patents.[4]
Education
Opstad has a
Career
Among tech companies Opstad has worked for are Xerox, and Apple; he retired from the industry in 2021, leaving Monotype after more than 16 years.[7]
During his time at
TrueType GX.[9][10] At that time software producers like Microsoft or Adobe did not implement the necessary support for this new technology, however, TrueType GX would later become the basis of modern variable fonts, (also known as OpenType Font Variations).[11][12]
Besides his work on font standards, Opstad's work on the earliest versions of Unicode—proposing the use of discrete 16-bit character codes (which was later increased, but retained via
tofu" ⟨□; �⟩.[1]
References
- ^ Becker, Joseph D. (10 September 1988). "Unicode 88" (PDF). Unicode Consortium (1998 ed.). Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.(ideographic character unification). Unicode retains the many features of XCCS whose utility have been proved over the years in an international line of communication multilingual system products.
Unicode arose as the result of eight years of working experience with XCCS. Its fundamental differences from XCCS were proposed by Peter Fenwick and Dave Opstad (pure 16-bit codes), and by Lee Collins
- ^ McGowan, Rick (12 February 2009). "Chronology". Unicode Consortium. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- PC Magazine. p. 93 – via Unicode Consortium Virtual Museum.
- ^ Devroye, Luc (23 May 2022). "Dave Opstad". On Snot and Fonts. Montreal, Canada: McGill University School of Computer Science. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ^ Park, Richard L., ed. (Fall 1972). "Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums". Asian Studies Professional Review. 2 (1). University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Association for Asian Studies, Inc.: 67. IA1534329-02 – via Internet Archive.
- JSTOR 41685293– via JSTOR.
- ^ Opstad, Dave. "Dave Opstad". LinkedIn. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ISBN 978-0-596-10242-5.
- ^ "Variable Fonts: making the promise a reality". Monotype. 28 February 2017.
- ^ "This Is Your Text on QuickDraw GX" (PDF). Macworld. December 1994. p. 25.
I got the impression that developers like Aldus, Adobe, and Quark are reluctant to implement portions of QuickDrawGX because there is no equivalent technology for Windows.
- ^ "fonttools python library". fonttools GitHub repository. 2 December 2021.
- ^ "W3C Web Fonts Acknowledgments". W3c. 21 July 1997.
Further reading
- "Early Years of Unicode". Unicode Inc. 26 March 2015.
- "TrueType GX Model Lives On in OpenType Variable Fonts". Ata Distance. 20 September 2016.
- "IMUG Events 1994". The Original Multilingual Computing User Group. 20 October 1994.
- "Speakers TYPOTECHNICA 2007". Linotype. 1994.
- "W3C Web Fonts Acknowledgments". W3c. 21 July 1997.