OpenType Variations --- just announced? Multiple Masters/TrueType-GX making a comeback

[William Adams]

Apparently the specification has just gotten worked up, now we have to wait for the tools to catch up:

https://medium.com/@tiro/https-medium-com-tiro-introducing-opentype-variable-fonts-12ba6cd2369#.w0qlxz76u

http://fontbureau.typenetwork.com/news/article/opentype-font-variations-open-up-a-world-of-possibilities

http://practicaltypography.com/the-scorpion-express.html

It'll be fun to play w/ Skia again, and I guess I can dust off my work on my revival of Trajanus and finish that up.

William

[Thomas Phinney]

On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 5:28:07 AM UTC-7, William Adams wrote:

Apparently the specification has just gotten worked up, now we have to wait for the tools to catch up:

True, but many of the tools vendors had advance warning and are well under way on that, including us at FontLab.

Browsers will take a bit longer (spring for shipping versions of some, at least), and design apps longer still. 

That critique from Matthew Butterick (Practical Typography) is just bizarre. Reading it reminded me of the little anti-OpenType minority with their strange rants. Matthew is a talented and otherwise intelligent fellow, so it is particularly strange, from the more-than-strained analogies to the doom-and-gloom to the contradictory "lessons." I'll write a counter-weight piece to it.

[Bret Perry]

I hope Matthew Butterick is wrong, but you have to admit we never got full-blown tools in the Quark or Adobe suites that gave us full access to all MM + GX features and worked when ripped to plate.

As I recall, the best we could do was create an “instance” - one particular weight and use that as a mono-style-font.

For the www, I do expect it to materialize. For print, I for one am excited but I’ll believe it when I see it working (and PDFing and ripping).

 

Bret Perry
Application Specialist/Studio Client Manager

ph 626-463-9365
fax 626-449-2201
bpe...@russreid.com

The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by calling the Help Desk at 855-486-5519.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "InDesign talk" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indesign-tal...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to indesi...@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indesign-talk.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Robert Wexler]

I'm working in CS6 on a book with hundreds of endnotes. I used Peter Kahrel's script to organize the endnotes. I need the running head in the Notes chapter to say Notes for pages xxx-xxx. Obviously, I want the page range filled in automatically and not by hand. I haven't been about figure out how to do that.

With his script, the note references in the text are cross-referenced to the note in the endnotes chapter. There must be a way to use those cross references in the running head, right?

Thanks,
Robert

[Dick Margulis]

When I asked a similar question a year or two ago, the conclusion was
that it wasn't possible, although I'm not sure that script was in the
mix, so your results may differ. In the end, I had to do it by hand. It
was tedious, but I got through it, and the proofreader had my back.

[Robert Wexler]

Thanks Dick. I was afraid of that...

[Harry S. Pariser]

I have a U3011 30-inch monitor which has been lightly used.
I returned from an extended trip, plugged in the monitor, and it was
working fine.
Then, suddenly, it went black.
I tried turning it on again.
It would come on and show the laptop's screen area (I am using a
MacBook Pro) for a few minutes and then go dead.
Then I tried turning it on without the display port cable.
The blue light goes on; the buttons all light up.
I got a message of  "no display port cable." Then the power light went
off and the display died. 
Pressing the power button had no effect, unless the power button was pressed.
I could not get the self test to work (the display turns off too fast),
and I swapped out the power cord to no effect. 
Any idea where I can get this repaired? Or how I can fix it myself?
 
Thanks!

[Mike Witherell]

I had a similar thing happen. YouTube videos showed how to open the case and replace a soldered capacitor that had the appearance of a mushroom top. Despite never having tried it before, I proceeded carefully, and it worked! My geek joy level was off the charts! The hardest part was finding an electronics store, show them the capacitor, and buy the 50 cent replacement.

Best to you,

Mike Witherell
301-524-6609
mikewi...@jetsetcom.net

Sent from TypeApp

[Martin Wright]

I had a Dell monitor which developed a number of vertical green lines on screen. It would have been within the warranty period, and Dell replaced it with a refurbished unit.

By the way, I have a Sony TV (a few years old) that has the same kind of vertical green line close to the left edge of the screen. It disappears after about 15 minutes.

Martin

[Bret Perry]

Bummer.

Sound serious - on my Dell if I unplug video cable it says ³no video
source² for a long time before shutting down (but maybe your¹s is
different).
Have you tried using a different port - RGB or something else (if
available)?
A different display port cable if you have one?
A different video source - a friend¹s computer if you don¹t have another
cpu or maybe a cable-TV/Dish box?


On 12/5/16, 1:18 PM, "indesi...@googlegroups.com on behalf of Harry S.
Pariser" <indesi...@googlegroups.com on behalf of

>--
>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
>"InDesign talk" group.
>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
>email to indesign-tal...@googlegroups.com.
>To post to this group, send email to indesi...@googlegroups.com.
>Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indesign-talk.
>For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>

Bret Perry
Production Specialist
ph 626-463-9365

[Harry S. Pariser]

It only says that for a few minutes and then shuts down; I have to
re-plug it in order to get it to turn on again. It does not show that
when the cable is attached and works for a brief period of time.
 
It went black when I was using it and has been that way since.  :(