It's great to see a post by the Big Adobe Bear himself. It's been a long time, Dov! Dov Isaacs wrote: …due to various rendering issues and problems with non-Adobe renderers, those fonts were replaced with versions with only a single outline. The replacement of that old version of Optima with a new, simplified version of Optima occurred nearly 20 years ago. If my memory serves me correctly, I believe that we did provide replacements at that time for registered licensees of Optima who experienced any issues… I wish that had been the case, Dov, but at the time (yes, decades ago) I was told by Adobe Customer Service that Adobe was not providing a replacement or even a discount for individual licensees of Optima, only for buyers of the entire Adobe Font Folio. They claimed they had no way of verifying individual font purchases, as opposed to applications. (I had my sales receipt from MacConnection and the original floppy.) Very irritating, to say the least. It was way before customer and tech service were outsourced to India, as I remember the very apologetic young guy telling me at the time that they were located somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, either Oregon or Washington. The problem with Optima in my case was that it became incompatible with the then-new version 4.5.1 of ATM Deluxe, a quintessentially Adobe product. Here are my contemporary notes on the issue: RGC (my initials) created the Zoptimum family of PS fonts on 02/14/2000 in order to work around the incompatibility of Optima with the new version of ATM Deluxe (4.5.1), which reports Optima as “damaged”—apparently due the early Optima package's two versions of the outline font [low-res and hi-res] within a single outline printer font file. Zoptimum is the low-res (LW II) version of Hermann Zapf's Optima converted in Fontographer. Anyway, good to hear from you, Dov. ____________ Wo Tai Lao Le 我太老了
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