Re: hidden composites

["Melissa O'Neill" <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>]

I wrote:
>> I have AMFMs (and the sets of design AFMs needed) for Nueva and Tekton,
>> my two Multiple Master fonts, so I can vouch for their reality. Getting
>> AMFMs for Nueva required a contact in Adobe. It certainly looks like
>> Adobe doesn't want to bother with them any more.

... and Thierry Bouche <thierry.bouche@ujf-grenoble.fr> replied:
> do you mean that they don't even consider people willing to use MM
> fonts without acces to some flavour of ATM?

That's about the size of it. The platforms without ATM are a tiny
percentage of Adobe's business, so it's little surprise if support is
inaqequate for those platforms.

Chris, from Adobe Technical Support told me:
< You are correct; our ftp site does not include all AFM files. We are no
< longer updating that list, as we get very few requests for AFM files.
< Most applications no longer need them.

*sigh*

    Melissa.