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From: preston@lll-crg.llnl.gov (David R Preston)
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Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager (long)
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Date: 7 Dec 90 10:51:42 GMT
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In article <4053@mindlink.UUCP> a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn) writes:
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>> I just installed ATM. The installation is easy, but the program has a
>> number of annoying glitches that lessen its usability.

I've always heard "never buy anything from Microsoft that ends in 0",
maybe the same is true for Adobe (1/2 :-)  Maybe it won't be too long
before ATM 4W 1.1....

Let me say first that I like ATM; it does what I wanted it to do,
which is print in any size from any type 1 font.  I don't have a 
postscript printer, I have an HP Deskjet+.  The Deskjet+ has built-in
courier fonts, 6 & 12 point, 5, 10, 16.67, & 20 pitch.  I have purchased
HP Helvetica & Times Roman softfonts, which have to be downloaded when the
machine is booted, in the sizes you want to print, dependent on how much memory
the printer has.  When I installed the softfonts, screenfonts were 
automatically installed.  The first thing I did when I installed ATM was 
make sure that I knew exactly what was being printed.  I killed all the 
synonym and alias stuff, and made sure the names of the soft fonts were 
different from the ATM fonts (Times Roman & Helv Vs. Times & Helvetica).

First I printed out various fonts to make sure I had the above right.
I did.  Then I noticed that the menu claimed that courier 5, 10, 16.67 & 20
pitch could be printed in any size from 6 to 48.  This is wrong.  This is a
bug.  Then I started paying attention to what the screen looked like.  The 
hinting for doing Helvetica on the screen at less than 14 points is simply 
wrong; some of the lines in the characters don't even meet, and some of the 
characters look like they're touching. The capital M looks just as bad at 
1024 x 768 as it does at 800 x 600, I haven't tried it at 640 x 480 (by the 
way, I'd like to know what graphics board the guy with 1024 x 768 x 268 is 
using; he's got 12 more colors than most of us :-)

I can't wait until I get the scalable HP Deskjet driver and TrueType....
Maybe I'll run it all through Goscript :-)
-david

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