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From: hpoppe@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager (and deskwriter)
Message-ID: <4881@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 89 17:32:12 GMT
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In article <16128@netnews.upenn.edu> hodas@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Josh Hodas) writes:
*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???
*
[Stuff deleted]
*
*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.

Can ATM be used to generate and save these bitmaps in a format that
can be loaded into the System File with the FontDA Mover? If so, how?

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