Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!visix!news From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: First faces in the Multiple Master format Message-ID: <1991Apr9.173107.15027@visix.com> Date: 9 Apr 91 17:31:07 GMT References: <1991Apr9.001714.11592@d.cs.okstate.edu> <1991Apr9.043018.1@euler.claremont.edu> Sender: news@visix.com Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 19 dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes: They use really naive methods for getting boldface fonts: the medium weight face is drawn by hand, scanned and splines are fitted to it. Other weights are then created by moving the control points for the splines. Period. While this may be true (or may have been true) for Adobe designs, it is quite obviously not true for their interpretations of existing type faces. I often manipulate characters as outlines in Illustrator 3.0, and based on my observations so far, I'd say that the above method is the exception, not the rule... -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- "Haven't you learned yet that X is a vendor conspiracy to sell more memory and disks?" --Bob Scheifler