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Steve: Thanks a lot for the info on Parker's speech. I wonder if Adobe's bezier fonts could also be manipulated in a manner similar to that envision in a Royal "Level 3" font, given PostScript language extensions to handle such font manipulation, or if it is something that only the Royal quadratics can do. The obvious question is whether any of the big type foundries will bother to take advantage of this feature or just continue to produce fonts that do linear scales from one master. I suppose the market that would appreciate such a move is limited. Additional font manipulation in PostScript would be nice in other areas beside optical scaling. In small caps, in addition to horizontally scaling them a little more than the parent font (which is fairly easily accomplished in most DTP programs) it would be nice to be able to heavy-up the small caps so they match the weight of the parent cap. Adobe reps that I recently spoke to said a fairly extensive upgrade in PostScript is almost ready that will provide quite a few additional type manipulation operators. I'm curious to see what we get. –jon