Metamorphosis Professional is a substantial upgrade to Metamorphosis, the Mac's first font-conversion utility. This version is an industrial-strength converter, capable of convening fonts among all Mac formats. The software also produces PostScript fonts for the PC and NeXT platforms, TrueType for the PC, and font databases for use in Fontographer (Altsys' font-creation program).
All the program's operations occur in a single window that has two modes. Convert Text and Convert Font. Compared with FontMonger's, Metamorphosis Pro's font-conversion dialog box is a model of streamlined simplicity. You simply open font suitcases or Fontographer font databases, add typefaces to the batch-conversion list (Bernhard Modem Roman is a single font here), choose the output format(s), and click on the Convert button. Metamorphosis Professional asks where you want to store the converted fonts (there's a handy New Folder button) and begins processing fonts. You can convert fonts into multiple formats in a single conversion operation, and the program can locate and convert PostScript fonts no matter where they're located — even if they're inside a PostScript printer's ROM,
Metamorphosis Professional normally creates one suitcase for each four-font family, but you can also create a separate suitcase for each font (handy if you use Adobe Type Reunion). For those who prefer a nontradiiional font family, a bundled utility called Style Merger lets you merge four styles of a typeface into a single family. Metamorphosis Professional provides some control over its automatic hinting process, particularly for conversions to TrueType. For Type 1 conversions. you can only turn hinting on or off; for TrueType, however, you can independently select vertical/horizontal hints, diagonal hints, and three degrees of dropout control.
Despite Metamorphos is Professiona1's single-minded focus on font conversions, we experienced a few problems. The program doesn't generate bit-mapped fonts during TrueType-to-Type-1 conversions, so if your TrueType originals didn't come with bit maps, you wind up with Type 1 printer fonts and no way to install or use them. Because most vendors, including Bitstream and Monotype, are shipping TrueType fonts without bit maps, this is a major problem that requires fast fixing. We discovered that converting fonts in Adobe's Expert series confounded the program: A TrueType version of Minion Expert was missing more than half the character set, including fractions, superscripts, subscripts, and special characters.
Metamorphosis Professional can convert font characters into EPS or PICT outlines. However, it offers more control than FontMonger does over which characters are converted. It can create outlines for characters that FontMonger misses, such as fractions. Metamorphosis' EPS outlines closely match those of FontMonger, with a similar number of control points, but its PICT-conversion process is vastly superior.
Abernathy, Aileen. (November 1991). FontMonger and Metamorphosis Professional. MacUser. (pgs. 83, 85).
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