The Multiple Master Menu
The MM Menu provides a few commands for manipulating
Multiple Master or Apple
distortable fonts. If the current font is a MM itself font
the menu also includes a list of all font instances that make
up this one. This menu is available in the font view and the outline glyph view.
The menu as it appears in the font view
- Create MM
- Brings up the multiple
master dialog and allows you to create your own multiple
master font from scratch.
- MM Valid
-
Checks that the current multiple master font can be saved.
So each master design must match in:
- Contours
- There must be the same number of contours
and
- each contour must have the same number of points
and
- each spline on the contour must be the same type
(ie it can't correspond to a straight line in one
font and a curve in another)
- References
- There must be the same number of references
and
- Each corresponding reference must refer to the
same encoding
- Hints
- HintMasks (Counter masks are not supported here)
- HintMasks at corresponding points must specify a
corresponding set of hints
- Kerning
- If a glyph kerns with another glyph in one font,
then a corresponding kerning pair must exist in all
designs
- MM Info
- Brings up the multiple
master dialog and allows you to modify the current
multiple master font.
- Blend to New
Font...
- Allows you to create a blended version of the current
multiple master font set as a stand alone font.
- MM Change Default
Weights
-
Allows you to change the default weights assigned to each
master design used in blending the default instance of the
font
- <sub font name>
- Clicking on a different sub font name in the menu will
cause that sub-font to be displayed instead of the current
one. The subfonts are the master designs and the default
blended font.
The menu as it appears in the outline glyph view
- MM Reblend
- Reblends the default version of the current glyph
- View
-
A submenu which allows you to choose which of the designs
of this glyph you want displayed in the background of the
view
- <sub font name>
- Clicking on a different sub font name in the menu will
cause the glyph from that sub-font to be displayed instead of
the current one. The subfonts are the master designs and the
default blended font.
Other menus
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