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From: dan@sics.se (Dan Sahlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Incompatibility between Adobe TypeAlign and Mac Comm Toolbox?
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.164329.27751@sics.se>
Date: 11 Sep 90 16:43:29 GMT
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I had a lot of problems getting Adobe TypeAlign to run on my Mac+.
The system (6.0.5) just crashed when I started the DA.
Finally, I got it working when I removed the routines from Macintosh
Communications Toolbox 1.0, which was not a very easy thing to do as there
is no way you can deinstall these routines.

TypeAlign is nice, but it seems to point to a problem with characters
represented in Type 1 format.  For instance, there is no way a single
character can be shown in true perspective.  The transformation
performed on each character seems to be a simple linear projection.
The program will attempt to appear having more advanced projections by
varying the projection for each character in a text, but the result is
often not very convincing.  Are there other programs (or font
representations) that are more capable in this respect?

	/Dan Sahlin
email: dan@sics.se