... least some of its advanced features) will go the way of MultipleMaster fonts? Context: I am working on a Classical Arabic-script ... Laurie, Laurie, The Cliff notes version is: MultipleMaster fonts were originated in the 80s by Adobe as a way to generate ...

Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 12:29pm - 110 comments - 0 attachments

... Ikarus Intellifont Metafont MultipleMaster OpenType PostScript TrueType TTX ...

Wiki - Eben Sorkin - 2 Aug 2008 - 7:16am - 0 comments

... Adobe abandoned the concept as an end product. However, MultipleMaster (MM) axis are used today by type designers in programs like ... Additional Articles LettError Wiki : MultipleMaster Designing Multiple Master Typefaces (PDF) (wiki) ...

Wiki - dezcom - 2 Feb 2008 - 3:06pm - 0 comments

... calls for font variations. It kinda has the flavor of MultipleMaster technology to me. Does anybody know more about this (that they ...

Forum topic - raph - 8 Jun 2006 - 4:51pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... quickly generating multiple instances of a MultipleMaster typeface for testing, and a couple of other things. The ...

Forum topic - benkiel - 28 Jan 2006 - 5:20pm - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Here’s an interesting situation: URW releases Avant Garde, Century Schoolbook, Times, Helvetica, Bookman, Zapf Chancery, Courier, and Palatino to the Ghostscript community as freely available and modifiable basic Latin and Western European Postscr ...

Forum topic - DanGayle - 16 Jan 2008 - 5:49pm - 23 comments - 0 attachments

I am a math student with a type obsession. I’ve searched just about every place I could think of for information on how to create fonts that can be used in TeX and have not had any luck. I run Linux and have played around with FontForge, but do no ...

Forum topic - Glen - 22 Mar 2008 - 7:58pm - 7 comments - 0 attachments

... and class into this vfb. In case your vfb have any MultipleMaster axis, once you copy and paste the glyph that include a component ...

Forum topic - Pieter van Rosmalen - 27 Feb 2008 - 2:20am - 22 comments - 0 attachments

This 1991 episode from »Computer Cronicles« looks at the »fascinating and sometimes frustrating world of fonts« in the early years of desktop publishing. You can see the introduction of scalable fonts, the Adobe Type Manager, Multiple-Mas ...

Blog entry - Ralf Herrmann - 18 Dec 2007 - 7:13am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... for There are two helpers for this: If your font is MultipleMaster, with a weight axis, try Tim Ahrens’ RMX Tuner: ... in a bit late here... Karsten, If your font is MultipleMaster, with a weight axis, try Tim Ahrens’ RMX Tuner The RMX ...

Forum topic - kiko - 7 Nov 2007 - 7:23pm - 38 comments - 0 attachments