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From: preston@lll-crg.llnl.gov (David R Preston)
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Subject: Re: ATM for windows and fonts from Bitstream?!?
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Date: 7 Dec 90 10:26:21 GMT
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In article <87251@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> preston@lll-crg.llnl.gov (David R Preston) writes:
>According to the user guide for Adobe Type Manager for Windows:
>
>	The ATM program is compatible with...Type 1 format font
>	software, including the Adobe Type Library fonts, and Type
>	1 font software package[s] from Linotype, Agfa-Compugraphic,
>	Varityper, Monotype, Autologic, Bitstream, and The Font
>	Company.
>
>All well and good, except I called Bitstream today and asked for a list
>or catalog of their fonts that can be used with ATM.  They told me that
>their fonts can't be used with ATM.  I said "Don't you sell type 1 fonts?"
>The reply was "We have scalable fonts.  They are not true Type 1 fonts."

The situation has been explained to me.  Bitstream sells Type 1 fonts.
Bitstream sells Type 1 fonts that can be used for ATM.  On the Mac.  Not
on the PC.  Bitsteam sells scalable fonts that can be used by some 
applications on the PC, but not Windows, or ATM for Windows.  Yet.
Adobe erred in the "user guide" for ATM for Windows; perhaps they
just included the entire list of companies licensed to sell Type 1 fonts,
without considering whether they were actually available in PC format.
-david

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