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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
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Subject: Re: ATM and Vanilla MacPluses
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Date: 18 Nov 89 15:28:56 GMT
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In article <1638@ecs.soton.ac.uk> lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Les Carr) writes:
>On a related topic, should I be surprised that Illustrator doesn't
>benefit from ATM, even in Preview mode?
>
>Thanks in advance.

Illustrator 88 1.9.3 should have been sent to all registered users.  1.9
makes Ill 88 compatible with ATM.  On a personal note, though, I wouldn't
advise upgrading.  What Adobe has done is slow down Illustrator to the
point where it's unusable.  Try typing some text.  Next click on
the enlargement tool.  Enlarge the text.  Illustrator asks ATM to generate
a new sized bitmap constantly.  The result?  You can't smoothly enlarge
anything with text.  ATM causes Illustrator to jump from one size to the
next.

What would my solution be?  I have a few:

1) Use QuickDraw to do the scaling when you're in the process of enlarging.
   Once you've released the mouse, have ATM kick in and give you a nice
   view.
2) Only have ATM active in preview mode (not as good as #1 in my opinion).
3) Bag ATM compatability.  (Less preferable than #1 or #2 but better
   than the current implementation in 1.9)

Any other comments/solutions?  I've sent mine to Adobe...

Ken



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