Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!digel.berkeley.edu!ribet From: ribet@digel.berkeley.edu (Kenneth A. Ribet) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: TeX Fonts, PostScript, and Macintoshes Keywords: tex, fonts, postscript, macintosh, ATM Message-ID: <1991Jan26.004802.8089@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 26 Jan 91 00:48:02 GMT References: <1991Jan14.190050.12790@agate.berkeley.edu> <20004@unix.SRI.COM> Sender: ribet@math.berkeley.edu (Kenneth A. Ribet) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Lines: 30 In article <20004@unix.SRI.COM> schwer@unix.sri.com (Len Schwer) writes: >In article <1991Jan14.190050.12790@agate.berkeley.edu> >ribet@digel.berkeley.edu (Kenneth A. Ribet) writes: >... >>2. The fonts seem not to work without ATM, even though the instructions >>mailed with the fonts claim that non-ATM owners can still use them. On >>the advice of Blue Sky, I bought a copy of ATM. > >The Textures/Blue Sky Research CM/PS fonts do work without ATM. > Blue Sky made some changes to their postscript fonts without changing the version number (which is still 0.9 to the best of my knowledge). They recently sent me a recent version 0.9 which fixed a pretty glaring bug: \Gamma was printing as blank space! The current version has two different metrics files, one for ATM-people and one for non-ATM people. My original disks had only one metrics suitcase. >>3. The fonts take up a lot of printer memory. > >This is very true. For 1 Mbyte printers it's almost hopeless. >But memory is cheap and certainly the improved print quality using >CM/PS makes them well worth both the direct and indirect extra cost. Sad to say, you can't add memory to the original LW series printers! At least, you can't so far. Anybody who figures out how to upgrade these machines has a lot of potential customers out there.. Ken Ribet UC Berkeley Math Dept ...ucbvax!{digel,pepto-bismol,maalox,math}!ribet