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From: bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe ATM
Message-ID: <1320@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 22:39:51 GMT
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Reply-To: bezanson@adobe.UUCP (Brian Bezanson)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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In article <15963@pollux.UUCP> ieee@smu.UUCP (IEEE group account) writes:
>I have a question about ATM.  Can you generate bitmap fonts and save them
>as font resources?  That would be useful for sizes that are used frequently.
>It's what FontSizer would do now.
>Fred Hollander
>Software Innovations, Inc.

ATM won't save them as bitmaps. This is because ATM will generate the font
you've requested on the fly. With FontSizer, you need a PostScript printer and
~20 minutes for each size you want - plus the disk space to save that size.
With ATM, you just ask for the size and get it - the entire hit is ~50K of
cache per face. If you use 15 point often, just ask for it. It will take 
from .5 - 10 seconds (depending on machine) to load in the outline and 
create the initial font, but once cached - speed isn't any different 
from a prebuilt bitmap.

Unfortunately for the FontSizer people, ATM and System 7.0 remove the need for
the program. Hope this answers you're questions/clarifies things.

-- 
Brian Bezanson                                          bezanson@adobe.com
Adobe Systems Incorporated           The opinions expressed above are my
                                     own and may not represent those of Adobe.