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From: ar12@prism.gatech.EDU (REGISTER,ANDREW H)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: ATM fonts and II NTX problems
Summary: Public Domain ATM fonts and Laserwriter II NTX Problems?
Message-ID: <23147@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 1 Mar 91 18:33:22 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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I got the ATM fonts from cica and installed them in win3 (all 117 of them).  I 
then wrote a macro in W4W to go through the font list and create a table entry.
When I printed it, some of the fonts printed pretty crazy.  Although they appear 
correctly on the screen, on an Apple Laserwriter II NTX Uncial was displaced up 
half a line, Arnold Boecklin prints using a courier face, (so does brush script
and dingbats).  All the eras have no space for space.  Post Antiqua has filled in
B and D.  I could go on but I will not.

This is not a complaint!!!!!!  I *love* the extra fonts.

What I would like to know is what is happening here.  I thought that the ATM uses
the same files to generate the screen version as the printer uses to generate the
printer version.  All of them show up correctly on the screen (well almost) and
they print correctly to a hp laserjet II w/o postscript.  

Some one said that ATM is a newer rendering technology than that in the II NTX.
Are the technologies not backward compatible?

Toodles
Andy
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