Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!nsc!voder!apple!chuq From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, net.god {retired}) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: What is Adobe Type Manager? Keywords: novice question Message-ID: <50954@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 29 Mar 91 17:22:40 GMT References: <1991Mar29.075639.28242@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Mar29.170043.1364@morrow.stanford.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Dottie I's Private Eyes Lines: 40 ddaniel@lindy.stanford.edu (D. Daniel Sternbergh) writes: >>Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is the Adobe Type Manager? >Obsolete with System 7.0 and TrueType technology. I'm not sure I agree. I'm using both on my 7.0 system, and probably will for the indefinite future. For ATM to REALLY be obsolete requires more than just TrueType. It requires a couple of other things -- TrueType faces of the types I want (many of which are coming, but not here) that are as good as the Adobe faces I already depend on, and the ability to convert Type 1 and Type 3 fonts to TrueType (which is also coming) faces of the same quality. It doesn't particularly make sense to convert something to TrueType if the quality goes down in the conversion, so we'll have to see how people like Altsys do this. I expect I'll continue to use ATM for Type 1 fonts and TrueType for Truetype fonts -- and buy whatever type font works best for what I'm doin. I don't see that either really does much to the other. >>1.whether it works on ALL word processors/DTP's >Only the ones which display on the screen. Right. Or prints to a dot-matrix printer. >>2.what fonts it supports/provides, >These you gotta buy from Adobe. Wrong. Any type 1 font. >>3.and whether it enhances printing on an imagewriter or laserwriter. >Yes, and no. In that order. One outta three's not bad. -- Chuq Von Rospach >=< chuq@apple.com >=< GEnie: CHUQ >=< AppleLink: CHUQ SFWA Nebula Awards Reports Editor =+= Editor, OtherRealms Book Reviewer, Amazing Stories ---@--- #include Recommended reading: BONE DANCE by Emma Bull; BLIND JUSTICE by S.N. Lewitt; SCIENCE FICTION IN THE REAL WORLD by Norman Spinrad