Updating older versions of Adobe fonts? Slightly off-topic, but related in a way!

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

Hi, all (particularly Dov Isaacs, as I seem to remember that you know a lot about Adobe fonts).

Over the years, I bought a number of fonts from Adobe (some of them were quite expensive too) for use with FrameMaker. Of course, since these were all purchased _more_ than a decade ago, they are all Type 1 PostScript fonts (i.e, before the TrueType and OpenType formats even existed).

Now, I assume that, since my purchases, these fonts have _probably_ been improved and tweaked quite a bit. Plus, there are newer versions in the OpenType format now for many of these fonts (like Adobe Caslon, Adobe Caslon Expert, Adobe Garamond, Adobe Garamond Expert, Tekton ... just to name a few of the ones I purchased)!


1.      How can I "upgrade" (so to speak) these fonts to the latest - presumably OpenType? - versions of the same fonts without having to buy them all over again? I have not seen anything on the Adobe site that would seem to allow such an upgrade. Or would it be considered a supportable download, perhaps? :)

Buying new versions these would be quite an expensive proposition, so I am hopeful that you all have some recommendations here!
Also, some of these purchases were of "Adobe Multiple Master" Fonts (or some such name, as I recall). Since the old Adobe Type Manager is not supported under Windows 7, I don't know how to use these with Windows applications anymore - let alone FrameMaker.


2.      How do you all deal with these older Adobe Multiple Master Font formats? Am I even asking the right question here?

Thanks much for any recommendations/suggestions you all may have.

Z

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