mfi@serc.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) (03/13/91)
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. --------------------- 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). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Interrante Software Engineering Research Center mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu CIS Department, University of Florida 32611 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from a west Texas farmer "status quo is Latin for the mess we're in."
rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) (03/18/91)
In article <27413@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@serc.cis.ufl.edu () writes: >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 The Adobe Illustrator format comes to mind. I don't know however if that's copyrighted or what not. Maybe they come up with something that is even better. e.g. that handles text in a good way. It would be cool if you could print out from a text object, get a .ps file and still be able to use the Librarian to search for info or extract the textual info from this file (i.e. a textobjectprintedps2rtf filter). Hope they have a nice surprise for us... Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet
mfi@serc.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) (03/18/91)
In article <68867@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes: >In article <27413@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@serc.cis.ufl.edu () writes: >>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 > >The Adobe Illustrator format comes to mind. I don't know however if >that's copyrighted or what not. >Maybe they come up with something that is even better. e.g. that >handles text in a good way. The format could incorporate RTF. This may be the best answer, however for it to be a standard, NeXT should bless it and say "this is it and everybody use it." Does anyone know when Illustrator is due out? One thing that Illustrator will do is ease the transition from Mac files to NeXT. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Interrante Software Engineering Research Center mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu CIS Department, University of Florida 32611 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from a west Texas farmer "status quo is Latin for the mess we're in."