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From: leadfoot@leftlane.ucs.dec.com (Mark Curtis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: New PS fonts on cica...
Keywords: ATM excel 3.0
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Date: 25 Jan 91 22:41:06 GMT
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In article <2102@inews.intel.com>, wwitt@adara.intel.com writes:
|> A little while ago I discovered a ZIP file which contains 36 Type 1
|> PostScript fonts on cica. The last time I checked, this file, 36psfont.zip
|> I believe it's called, was still sitting in the uploads directory.
|> 
|> Anyway, I installed all of the fonts and tried them out. WARNING! The 
|> Eurostile font appears to be corrupt. After I tried to type some text
|> in that font, ATM got very confused. Switching back to other fonts no
|> longer worked reliably. I had to restart Windows to get things back to
|> normal. Has anyone else encountered a similar problem?
|> 
|> In addition to the flaky Eurostile font, all versions of the Eras typeface
|> and one other font (can't remember the name at the moment, sorry) appear
|> to have no space character. Does anyone know of an easy way to fix this?
|> Is it possible to massage the metric files to give a space some width
|> greater than zero? If I seem ignorant here, it's because I am. I don't
|> know what the representation format for Adobe Type 1 fonts is. Maybe
|> someone could enlighten me?
|> 
|> Aside from the problems with Eurostile and the missing space characters,
|> the fonts in the archive are quite nice.
|> 
|> Wolf Witt
I had the same problem with Eurostile, but I didn't notice the problems
with the missing space characters yet.  It sure is a great collection of
fonts if they all worked.

WARNING!
Excel 3.0 and ATM 1.0 don't work correctly together.  The new version
of Excel has problems with ATM.  I have reported this to both Microsoft
and Adobe.  Both admitted it was a problem, but so far no answers.
The problems I have seen are with axis labels and attached text in
charts.  Sometimes things look good until the charts are printed, other
problems surface right away.