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From: daw@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (David Wolverton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager
Message-ID: <4146@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 89 21:19:49 GMT
References: <2463@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <125093@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <34930@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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In article <34930@apple.Apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
> Good point. A lot of the flaming has been from the "I own a laserwriter
> already" world. For Adobe, I'll bet this is a trivial part of their hopeful
> market share. All those non-postscript, dot-matrix printers are where ATM is
> *really* going to shine. The number of us going to spend the money to make
> our screens look nicer is nothing compared to the dot-matrix folks who are
> finally going to get real, decent looking output.

Subsitute "laser" for "dot-matrix" in Chuq's statement, and then consider
how many folks might consider buying ATM+Plus Pack as an alternative to
a PostScript laser printer.  This product expands Adobe's potential market
for downloadable fonts tremendously.

But I also agree with the Net sentiment that $199 is too much for the Plus
Pack.

Dave Wolverton
daw@attunix.att.com