Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a752 From: a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Adobe Type Manager Message-ID: <4017@mindlink.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 90 22:17:42 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Lines: 35 I just installed ATM. The installation is easy, but the program has a number of annoying glitches that lessen its usability. 1) When using the font selection box on Word for Windows, the box claims that fonts which are available from the printer (ie. cartridge fonts) are now all printable in all sizes from 6 to 48 point. Of course this is nonsense. You have to remember what the actual font size is of a cartridge font, independently of the display of point sizes in the list box. 2) Helvetica and Times Roman fonts are duplicated somehow (both Helv and Helvetica, and Tms Rmn and Times Roman appear in the list box of Word for Windows). 3) Although point sizes of 6 are listed for supported fonts, the screen fonts are limited to 8 point and larger. Thus asking for 6 point Helvetica gets you 6 point printing, but an 8 point incorrectly spaced screen display. This can be fixed however by changing the point size listed in the SynonymPSBegin= line of the ATM.INI file to 6. 4) Inspite of the advertising on the package which promises better screen fonts, some screen fonts are worse with ATM turned on than with it turned off. I frequently use 10 point Helvetica bold. Using Window's built-in Helvetica screen fonts, the screen output is quite acceptable. With ATM turned on, the bold Helvetica display is quite ugly, with very poorly formed letters in many cases. I suspect that the ATM fonts might actually be a better approximation to the printed output, but the original Windows fonts are far easier to look at. 5) The first time Windows has to display a given font, there is a substantial pause (presumably while the screen font is calculated). This is particular noticable when turning to the Fonts section of the Control Panel, where it takes ages to display the font samples at the bottom of the display box. -- Bruce Dunn Vancouver, Canada a752@mindlink.UUCP