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From: boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: PS fonts, ATM and HP Deskjet?
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Date: 7 Dec 90 01:02:52 GMT
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khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) writes:

>I've heard/read that if you have Type 1 PostScript fonts, ATM can
>display them properly at various point sizes on your screen. But, does
>that also mean that you can get reasonable looking hardcopy on HP
>DeskJets if you have only Type 1 PostScript fonts *without*
>4-times-oversized bitmap versions or ATM outline font versions of a
>particular font family?

ATM intercepts requests for a particular size of a particular font.
The LQ ImageWriter driver which drives the DeskJet under your configuration
(a Grappler connection) requests a size four times larger than the one you
specified.  When ATM is installed, it fulfills this request if a Type 1
downloadble font file is installed for the font you requested.

The fonts supplied with ATM and the ATM Plus Pack are Type 1 fonts,
no different from any other Type 1 fonts.

For this reason, if you can use Metamorphosis or evolution to convert
your Type 3 Burmese font into a Type 1 one, they should work.

>In particular, I'd like to use Ecological Linguistics' Burmese font,
>which is available as bitmaps in a limited range of point sizes (w/o
>the necessary 4x sizes for the DeskJet), or Type 3 PostScript fonts,
>which I suppose Evolution or Metamorphosis should be able to convert to
>Type 1. I already have a DeskJet, Grappler LS to drive it from my Mac,
>and ATM 2.0

Boris Levitin
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