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From: broe@plains.UUCP (Paul Broe)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Questions about Adobe Type Manager on the Mac
Message-ID: <5342@plains.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jul 90 05:18:03 GMT
References: <1+1$W?$@rpi.edu>
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <1+1$W?$@rpi.edu> kibo@pawl15.pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
->	1.)  What sort of fonts does ATM use?  Does it require special
->just-for-ATM Adobe fonts, or can it load normal Adobe Type 1s?  (How
->about plain Type 3s, and Image Club fonts?)
ATM works with any Adobe Type 1 font. I don't know about the others.

->	2.)  Does ATM allow you to print the fonts on non-PostScript printers?
Yes. It improves the output of an Imagewriter II nicely. (Especially at point
sizes >12)

->	3.)  How much memory does ATM use?  (I.e. would I have plenty of
->room left over if I used it with PageMaker or Illustrator 88, etc.?)
You decide how much memory it gets. (I have my font cache set at 512k now
and performance is reasonable considering this is a 8MHz 68000.) The first time
a font is loaded performance is slow, but when you use that font again,    
performance improves. In short, you *definitely* want more than 1Meg of ram.
(I have 4Meg.) It all depends on how much ram you get in your Mac. Which brings
me to this: *Don't buy your ram from Apple!!!!* Get a 1Meg Mac and buy Your
ram from a mail-order discount place. The Chip Merchant has been mentioned on
the net as being a good source at a low price, but I have no experience with
them.
->
->	Many thanks in advance...
->
You're welcome.

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