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From: mel@fleet.UUCP (mel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: ATM (Adobe Type Manager) Problems
Keywords: Adobe ATM Type
Message-ID: <45@fleet.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 21:38:07 GMT
Organization: Fleet Parts & Equipment, Inc.
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While our user group was given a preview of ATM (Adobe Type Manager) we
noticed that type had somewhat irregular spacing between letters in all
of the word processors that we tested it with.  The same text placed into
Pagemaker looked fine.  Printed output did reflect the same spacing
irregularities as shown on the screen - meaning Pagemaker's output was
fine but the word processors kept the erroneous spacing. 

I guess this effect is caused by the inability of the word processors
to process the kerning information?  Or was this caused by the fact that
we're looking at a pre-release version of ATM?

Hopefully our friends at Adobe can clear up this issue or at least inform
us as to where the performance of ATM will be limited by the methods
used in text display within various programs. Will the various word
processors have to be "updated" to correct this?

Mel Shear
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