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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Adobe Type Manager
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Date: 11 Sep 89 05:21:53 GMT
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Reply-To: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
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The October issue of MacUser contains an ad for Adobe Type Manager,
urging you to get a copy from your nearest Adobe Authorized dealer
today.  The ad features a sample of ImageWriter output containing what
looks like Times with caps 4 cm high.  The sample looks pretty durn
good, and there is a picture of a Mac Plus with the same thing on the
screen.  Cost is $99, and the package comes with outline versions of
Times, Helvetica, and Courier in plain, italic, bold, and bold italic,
as well as one style for Symbol.  You can also use Adobe Postscript
fonts with it, and it works with everything from a Plus up and with all
the popular Macintosh printers.  It looks like just the thing for
ImageWriter LQ users who want WYSWYG text.

There are only two things I would worry about.  The ad says Adobe Type
Manager is compatible with "virtually every major Macintosh
application."  This implies that there are some applications which have
problems with it.  The other worry is "What do you do with the package
when System 7 outline fonts come out?"

I don't have anything to do with Adobe, but if the samples in the ad are
real, and the Adobe Type Manager does everything the ad suggests it
does, then it looks like a real good buy.

We now have Virtual, all kinds of Finder replacements and enhancements,
and now outline fonts.  If this keeps up we will be able to purchase
System 7 functionality from the third party vendors before Apple has it
done themselves.

Earle R. Horton