Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!hercules!aida
From: aida@porthos (Hitoshi Aida)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Oddity in Courier font under ATM
Message-ID: <13117@hercules.csl.sri.com>
Date: 26 Oct 89 01:41:28 GMT
Sender: usenet@csl.sri.com
Reply-To: aida@csl.sri.com (Hitoshi Aida)
Organization: Computer Science Laboratory, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA  USA
Lines: 35

I sometimes prepare documents in my house using SE/30 and ImageWriter II,
and produce final output at my office using with LaserWriter Plus.
Recently I installed ATM, and found some interesting behavior in Courier
family.

First, all the images of "smart open quote" (code $d4) in bitmap font
go from up-left to down-right, but ATM-generated image go from down-left
to up-right.  They look like:

	bitmap font	ATM-generated image
	  *****			   ***
	    ****		  ***
	      ***		 ***
	        **		****

When I print the document at my house, all quotes go from down-left to
up-right (ATM-generated image) even if I install double-size bitmaps.

Next, at my office, when I try to print the document from a Mac II, which
is directly connected to the LaserWriter Plus, it uses built-in font
and the quotes go from down-left to up-right, just like the image in the
bitmap fonts.  To my surprise, when I capture the PostScript output by
cmd-F and send it to LaserWriter via UNIX, plain Courier has up-left to
down-right quotes, and all variations of Courier font (Bold, Oblique,
and Bold-Oblique) have down-left to up-right quotes.  Looking carefully,
I noticed that the typefaces themselves are slightly different from
built-in version, with square ends instead of round ends at each stroke.

I think Adobe used different version of Courier font in ATM than they used 
in building bitmaps or LaserWriter Plus.  If it is a matter of taste, I
prefer going from up-left to down-right (bitmap style).  But the real
problem is how we can maintain WYSIWYG using ATM?

Hitoshi AIDA (aida@csl.sri.com)
Computer Science Laboratory, SRI International