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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Royal vs Adobe
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Date: 9 Apr 90 20:29:00 GMT
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In article <11255@wpi.wpi.edu> macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg) writes:
>Royal will be much easier to use. It will be merely dropping the fonts in the
>system folder and go. There wont be this hassel that ATM currently has of
>installing bit map fonts, choosing BI Helvetica Italic font, or whatever and
>running atm as an init... Oh, i guess some of the problems with atm are fixed
>by an adobe program, but yet there is another investment.

I wouldn't call that much easier to use...here's the scheme:

Royal
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Drag fonts onto hard disk.
Drag fonts into System Folder
Drag fonts into System File.

ATM
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Drag ATM and font files from disk onto hard disk.
Drag files into System Folder.
Go to control panel and set your cache.

By the way, I believe both ATM and Royal have bitmaps for frequently
used sizes.  This allows hand-tuning of fonts for the best results.

To get Bold Italic Helvetica with either System you can go to Helvetica,
then bold it, and italicize it.  You don't have to select BI Helvetica Italic.

The one think I hope Apple does change with the evolution of TrueType is
to redo the font manager.  Currently, you can have Plain/Bold/Italic/BoldItal
and nothing else.  No semi-bolds?  No blacks?  No lights?  Hopefully,
this will change and Adobe will probably be happy to release bitmaps
to support those formats.

Ken

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