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From: dpaight@HP-UX.ucsd.edu (Dan Paight)
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Subject: Re: ATM and HP LaserJet II-compaitble printers
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Date: 14 Nov 89 03:33:29 GMT
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In article <16874@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) writes:
>People have been bitching (yes, bitching) that 12 point fonts look
>better with the bitmaps installed.  To that I say, of course they
>do.  You're not going to get any better than hand-tuned bitmaps?
>How could anyone possibly expect that?
>
>I keep all the general bitmaps installed.  ATM kicks in when I need
>a nice 48 point headline and it looks great.
>
>Conclusion: ATM won't produce miracles and Adobe doesn't advertise it as such.
>
>Ken
>

The complaints have focused mostly on bad spacing of text.  Mr B. at
Adobe made it quite clear about a month ago that ATM would offer no
improvement (aside from bold and italics) for those who use 12 pt.
(or, I presume, any size for which you already have a 2x
installed[?]).  That cured me of the expect-the-impossible
affliction.  You can't make an IW into a Laser Writer.  But it ought
to be possible to make the IW produce a properly spaced apostrophe.
I don't use ATM (don't own it), and I don't plan to.  But these
other people you hear complaining sound pretty convincing to me.

dp

[My views are, of course, the official views of the Regents of the
University of California.]