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From: lloyd@axecore.UUCP (Lloyd Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Adobe Type Manager
Keywords: ATM
Message-ID: <266@axecore.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 89 20:29:27 GMT
Reply-To: lloyd@axecore.UUCP (Lloyd Buchanan)
Organization: Axe Core, Tarrytown NY
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I called Adobe to order ATM.  They told me that they would be delighted
to sell it for $99 and ship in the undetermined future but that I may be
happier paying $60 for overnight delivery from a firm like MacWarehouse.
They were right.  Two points for honesty.

The product is excellent.  I don't have an Imagewriter but I do have a fax
modem and the output from it is dramatically better.  The screen output
is also much easier to read.  The performance difference is less than 
I expected.

Oddball comments though...

Only two applications I use don't work with ATM.  Cricket Chart 1.3 is a 
disappointing product to start with made more so by not working w/ATM.
I remember Brian mentioning that Illustrator 88 doesn't work with it.
He wasn't kidding.  Adobe at least promises an upgrade.

When I bought most of my fonts, Adobe sold them with 
copy-protection.  They sent backup disks to registered users and later
offered to "upgrade" to the non-copy-protected versions for (as I
recall) $50 apiece.  Didn't seem worth it at the time.  Those 
protected fonts don't work with ATM though.  (The "upgrade" is still
not worth $50 on principle!)

All in all, I am just a satisfied customer.
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Lloyd Buchanan                          uunet!axecore!lloyd
Axe Core Investors                      lloyd%axecore@uunet.uu.net
Axe Castle 	                        (914) 333-5226 (phone)
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