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July 16, 2021
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Multiple Masters convert to Type 1 fonts

  • July 16, 2021
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Hello Community,

 

I purchased eight MM fonts "back in the day" and am wondering whether Adobe ATM Deluxe or any other program can save the various instances of those fonts as Type 1 Postscript fonts -- i.e. not MM fonts. I seem to recall ending up with a bunch of files with names that contained numbers in them reflecting the weight and width axis.

 

On one of the utility disks I see a program called Font Creator 3.0. Might this be what is used to do that? Sorry for the Oldbe questions -- I can probably figure this out by experimenting, but if anybody knows directly about doing this, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Alternatively, is there another program that can easily save Multiple Master specific fonts to Postscript Type 1 fonts?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Tom

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    July 16, 2021

    You may have missed the announcement that type 1 font support is effectively closing down within 12 months if not sooner...

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    TomMxEditAuthor
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    July 16, 2021

    Hi,

    Yes, thank you, I saw that. That is why I am wanting to convert these Multiple Master fonts into fixed Type 1 fonts and then will use FontLab's TransType 4 to port them over to .otf files for my personal use. Now, if there were a way to go straight from MMs to .otf files that would be even better, though I don't believe there was that functionality in ATM and I know that it isn't an option for TransType 4. It is possible to do so by importing the MMs into FontLab Studio 5, but that is a bit of an expensive purchase if I already can do it with the software I have here, such as ATM. I'm only looking for a few instances of each font, not really a full family, so will keep experimenting with the old software to see what format I can save in...

    Stefan_Krapf
    Stefan_Krapf
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    July 7, 2024

    Hi Tom

    Did you find a way to convert it in the meantime?

    Because I do have some MM fonts too. And now I should convert it to OTF.

    Thanks a lot for your answer.

    Stefan

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