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From: bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager
Message-ID: <1179@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 00:45:52 GMT
References: <15514@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: bezanson@adobe.UUCP (Brian Bezanson)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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In article <15514@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>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.

Earle, we do work with 'virtually every major application'. We are testing
with system 6.0.2/6.0.3 on the Plus on up, and with all the major applications,
and their main versions. So we have Word 1, 3, and 4 and MacWrite 4.5 and II,
but not MacWrite 1 or 2. If you expand that to XPress, PageMaker, Excel,
etc... you get a list that would take years to test - thus the disclaimer.
I currently couldn't name one 'big name' application that we don't work with.

>  The other worry is "What do you do with the package
>when System 7 outline fonts come out?"

Since we've stated that Adobe isn't planning to convert any of our fonts to
the Apple format... We will have ATM working with 7.0 (and it will work on
your two-floppy MacPlus with 1 meg of RAM - I used Word on it and it kept up
with my 44 point typing.

The only problem with ATM and smooth fonts is that you'll want to do everything
in 44 point and up. Hope this info clarifies any questions.

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Brian Bezanson						bezanson@adobe.com
Adobe Systems

Opinions/Information are my own, but should be correct to the best of my
knowledge.