Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!hodas From: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager (and deskwriter) Message-ID: <16128@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 30 Oct 89 15:43:48 GMT References: <4677@yunexus.UUCP> <5082@bgsuvax.UUCP> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 49 In article <5082@bgsuvax.UUCP> denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) writes: >From article <4677@yunexus.UUCP>, by gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall): >> >> Here's my question about ATM... I don't give a rat's ass about >> on-screen scaling... all I want is good outlines fonts for my >> DeskWriter!!! Can I have the printer scaling WITHOUT the screen >> scaling??? > >Save your bucks. The deskwriter comes with the same 4 font families >as ATM. Theirs are also scalable. I have printed from 4 to 127 point, >and it looks beautiful. The Seven additional fonts that Adobe sells >are available from HP for either $200 or $300 list. > >-- >William C. DenBesten is denbeste@bgsu.edu or denbesten@bgsuopie.bitnet Perhaps William has missed the point of ATM. Adobe does not sell "Seven additional fonts". They sell hundreds of fonts that will work with ATM, or a postscript printer. Any Adobe outline font will work with ATM; without ATM Norm is limited to the 11 families available from HP. The seven fonts William refers to are an ATM add-on (the Plus-Pack) of seven fonts that would not be of particular interest to the usual Adobe customer, that is the outline for the rest of the fonts built into the most popular Pstscript printers. But this is by no means the only set usable with ATM. Now I say this only as someone who has been using ATM with a deskwriter for a week now together with a large collection of Adobe outlines. I do not work for adobe, I am only a (moderately) satisfied customer. My biggest qualm with all of this is that once you get hooked on outline fonts, they can cost a small fortune. As to Norms original question, there is not, as far as I know, a way to disable screen scaling and only use it on the printer. But note that screen scaling only kicks in if ATM doesnt find a screen font in the requested size. So if you have bitmaps in most of the screen sizes you use (and I reccomend this for speed reasons) then you will in effect have the disabling you want. Josh ------------------------- Josh Hodas (hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu) 4223 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 222-7112 (home) (215) 898-5423 (school office)