Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!bionet!apple!rutgers!att!cbnewse!macduff From: macduff@cbnewse.ATT.COM (Roger R. Espinosa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager Summary: Have to agree Message-ID: <1834@cbnewse.ATT.COM> Date: 24 Oct 89 12:18:57 GMT References: <266@axecore.UUCP> Organization: The Rabbit Corps Lines: 44 In article , dw2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Duane T. Williams) writes: > > I find it interesting that many people seem to like ATM. I've tried it > with my 1MB Mac Plus and ImageWriter. I don't have lots of cache memory > available. Font scaling on screen is extremely slow; so it is only > usable with screen fonts that don't have to be scaled. Hence, it Even on my 4 Mb SE, font scaling was slow (although it was interesting to hit a key and then watch the HD light go "blitter blitter blitter" as ATM grabbed outline information (I presume)). I converted the bitmapped fonts that came with ATM with the freeware NFNT program, and that screwed them up, something that did NOT happen with the Adobe Screenfonts I picked up from Sumex-aim. Redraw was real slow, and not *that* spectacular. > doesn't improve the appearance of my fonts on screen. I typically use > 9, 10 and 12 point fonts for my correspondence. At these sizes using > ATM makes a negligible difference in the quality of my printed output. > In some cases, letting Apple's printer driver scale down a double sized > font gives nicer output than ATM produces. On my system ATM doesn't > live up to either of its advertised benefits, and the loss of RAM for > the font cache hurts, as does the poor performance when ATM scaling is > required. > > Duane Williams > dtw@cs.cmu.edu My favorite font is Garamond-3. I have it in screenfont. I used to be real keen on Times. I thought this would be the time to change back. BUT Garamond-3 bitmapped looks BETTER than Times-ATM. The only font in the ATM package that looked "nicer" was ... Courier. Don't get me wrong - I think ATM just isn't going to make the ImageWriter II live any longer. I'm hoping that ATM will work better on a DeskWriter, but I dunno, since I don't own one (yet hope hope). The >20pt fonts WERE NICER, both on screen and in print. ATM also seemed to be incompatible with MacScheme. Dunno for sure, though. Oh well. I was hoping (really hoping) that ATM would make me love my IWII more. *Sigh*. At least Garamond-3 never looked so good! Roger Espinosa rre@ihlpn.ATT.COM