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From: mfi@serc.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante)
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Subject: Major announcement from Adobe (from PCWeek)
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Date: 12 Mar 91 19:47:30 GMT
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In the March 11 issue of PCweek they have a story about Adobe's new
technology called Multiple Master.  Here are some highlights from the
story:

It is aimed at extending the capabilities of postscript fonts by
allowing the user to control 1)weight 2) width 3) size 4) style of the
font. 

It includes a font substitution capability that lets one font mimic
the attributes of another font.

Typefaces can be changed from light to bold, from condensed to
expanded, from block type to serif type! 

Adobe plans to release the first two fonts using this technology in
the mid summer as well as updates to the adobe type manager programs
for Mac and PC.

The specification will be in the public domain.

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Any comments when/if this will be included in the NeXT OS?  Since it
appears to be an extension of ATM, and DP includes ATM, I would assume
that a release sometime in the late summer/early fall.  Maybe this
will be in 3.0.


On a different topic (but one that I would like addressed in 3.0):

Are there any plans to specify an interchange format for postscript
that is akin to PICT on the mac?  PICT allows me to create a complex
diagram, for instance a flowchart, and import that to my
wordprocessor.  (So far the next can do this) Later I can cut that
flowchart out of the document and edit it in *another* drawing
program. (TIFF is a completely different thing, being a bitmap).
 

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Mark Interrante   		  Software Engineering Research Center
mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu		  CIS Department, University of Florida 32611
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