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•••Metamorphosis® Professional Version 2.04 Aug. 6, 1992•••
Dear Meta Pro Owner,
Thank you very much for buying this product from Altsys. We
certainly do appreciate it, and we look forward to serving more
of your font and graphic needs in the future.
What’s new in 2.04? There is a new item in Preferences: “PC only:
undefined character set (Symbols).” This encoding option for
TrueType™ fonts is the same as the one used by the Wingdings
TrueType font shipped with Windows™ 3.1. When you select this
option along with “Sequential character ordering” character
mapping, ALL the characters in the Macintosh font in the range
from ASCII 32 through 255 will be output to the .TTF in
ascending order. Thus, if you want to access the dagger
character on your PC, simply type its ASCII id with the ALT-0
prefix, or said in real English, hold down the ALT key and type
0160.
Another change in our TrueType generation is due to Microsoft’s®
final shipment of Windows 3.1. Meta Pro 2.04 is the version to
use when converting fonts for use in Windows 3.1. This is true
of both PostScript® and TrueType fonts, as we now have each
character properly encoded to work with the final release of
Microsoft Windows 3.1.
When converting fonts to the NeXTSTEP™ 2.x operating system, we
try to make a better guess as to the precise weight of the
typeface. Before, a typeface named GoudyOldstyle-Black would
only indicate Medium in the weight field of the .AFM file. Now,
we allow for more weights and try to put the recognizable weight
(that follows the hyphen) into the weight field.
We fixed a few other minor bugs, but mostly just made
enhancements to NeXT and PC fonts.
Thanks again for your purchase. We hope you have as much fun
using Meta Pro as we did writing it. We have free, unlimited
technical support, so please don’t hesitate to call our customer
support team at (214) 680-2093 if you run into a problem.
Sincerely,
The Meta Pro Team, Altsys Corporation