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From: gelphman@adobe.COM (David Gelphman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager
Message-ID: <1303@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 07:10:12 GMT
References: <15514@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1179@adobe.UUCP> <22693@cup.portal.com> <1474@intercon.com>
Reply-To: gelphman@adobe.UUCP (David Gelphman)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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In article <1474@intercon.com> amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>In article <22693@cup.portal.com>, Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott)
>writes:
>> - Apple has said it will not support rotated text with its Royal scheme.
>>   Will ATM offer that?

>Royal itself isn't the problem--it's QuickDraw that won't handle rotation.
>ATM will probably have the same problem.
>
>The question I have is whether or not Apple and/or Adobe will put in rotation
>"hooks" (such as interpreting the LaserWriter Driver PicComments) that will
>allow drawing programs to ask for it.  That would be something of extreme
>niftyness...
>Amanda Walker

   Adobe Type Manager has full capabilities to allow arbitrary rotation,
scaling, and skewing just like a PostScript interpreter. For those familiar
with the PostScript language, ATM can handle the equivalent of the 
matrix passed to the 'makefont' operator.
   QuickDraw does not yet offer an application interface to specify
these attributes. ATM on the Mac therefore has a special application
interface which allows applications to pass this data directly to 
ATM. We are currently in the process of documenting that interface
so all applications can take advantage of this functionality. I'll be
happy to post the documents when they are available (which should be
before the end of October).

David Gelphman
Adobe Systems Incorporated