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Re: Multiple Master???


From: Just van Rossum
Subject: Re: Multiple Master???
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 01:13:28 +0100

At 12:03 AM +0100 10-07-2000, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>Just to add a note: the MM technology has proved not to be popular
>with font designers, as it is impossible to sell a MM font for 2^n
>times the price of an ordinary font.  It has also not proved popular
>with users (except graphic artists and magazine designers), as it
>requires the user to finetune the font's parameters, something that
>should really be the font designer's job.
>
>As far as I know, Adobe have abandoned MM.  They still support the
>format, but they no longer create MM fonts, and don't encourage font
>designers to create them.

David knows; I told him before he started implementing it ;-)

Just





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