October 2006 Archives

Well, the title pretty much says it all. ATM Light and Deluxe don't appear to work properly under Vista, and we don't currently have any plans to update them (we stopped selling and supporting ATM Deluxe quite some time back).

However, multiple master (MM) fonts also don't really work at the system level under Windows without ATM (Light or Deluxe). With Adobe applications that use our shared font engine, you can still put MM fonts in a shared Adobe fonts folder, whether it's "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts" or the "Fonts" folder within an individual application folder. So it will still be possible to get MMs working under Vista for, say, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. But not for Microsoft Office, QuarkXPress, Adobe Freehand, or many others.

Sorry for the bad news. But I trust it was apparent that this sort of thing was coming sooner or later.

I promised a number of folks that I would make my recent presentations at the international typography conference, ATypI, available. So here are my presentations and those of several colleagues from ATypI 2006 Lisbon. What is the ATypI conference? I wrote about it a bit in this post on font conferences.

First, a cautionary note: these are the *slides* from the presentations, usually not including talking points. So many of these will be of most use to people who were there. Also, I will continue to add TypeTech presentations to this post as more come in.