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[William F. Adams]

I'd said:
>> Can anyone tell that I really miss Multiple Master fonts?

On Mar 22, 2005, at 9:40 AM, Will Robertson wrote:
> Don't worry, Skia has width and weight axes!
> What, you tell me that you can't solve every typesetting problem with 
> Skia? :)

I've been tempted.

> I hope that one day the MM format is resurrected, but I don't hold my 
> breathe. In fact, considering how MM fonts work (linear interpolation 
> between four corner points, except for a few which use more control 
> sizes -- I think), I don't consider it impossible that they could be 
> reconstructed from the fonts Adobe now sells in four optical sizes and 
> several weights.

MM is dead. I'm accepting that (though apparently they do do well in 
InDesign).

> Gee, I wonder how they managed to so easily produce such a large 
> range? Could it be they're still using MM fonts to build their 
> OpenType Pro fonts?

They've said as much on the OpenType list, and have advocated that as a 
workflow for other people.

William

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