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From: dpaight@HP-UX.ucsd.edu (Dan Paight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ATM
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Date: 15 Nov 89 22:14:59 GMT
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In article <1450@adobe.UUCP> bezanson@adobe.UUCP (Brian Bezanson) writes:
>
>From what I read in the advertising, ATM is designed to allow you to print
>PostScript fonts on printers using the printers full resolution and display
>type on the screen at best resolution. If you try this with ATM (and at sizes
>where pre-built bitmaps for the device don't exist), ATM will be a noticable
>improvement. How that output is spaced is done by the application (and in
>some part by the driver). Since XPress allows me to space the type perfectly,
>then my guess would be that Word could have a similar feature.
>

Well, I can't argue with that.  Never did.  If I understand you
correctly, then, you would not advise someone who uses MS Word for
final printouts to buy ATM.  If, on the other hand, you use one of
the dtp programs you mention -- or any program that is capable of
correcting for deficiencies in the IW driver -- then ATM is the best 
thing since sliced bread.

Somehow, this doesn't make me feel any better about the advertising
people at Adobe (or whomever Adobe contracted with). No matter whose
fault it is, the incompatability problems with such popular programs
as MS Word ought to be made clear in the small print. 


dp