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From: ddaniel@lindy.stanford.edu (D. Daniel Sternbergh)
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Subject: Re: What is Adobe Type Manager?
Keywords: novice question
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Date: 29 Mar 91 22:18:41 GMT
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In article <50954@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, net.god {retired}) writes:
>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.

Fair enough.  Retracted.

>>>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.

I would be interested to see a word processor which prints to a
dot-matrix printer, but which doesn't display on the screen.

>>>2.what fonts it supports/provides,
>>These you gotta buy from Adobe.
>
>Wrong. Any type 1 font.

Yup, I meant to suggest Adobe as a representative, not an exclusive,
source.  This didn't come out.  My apologies.
>
>>>3.and whether it enhances printing on an imagewriter or laserwriter.     
>>Yes, and no.  In that order.
>One outta three's not bad.

Fair enough, but you should elaborate to mention that I'm forgetting
bitmapped characters sent to the LaserWriter.  Of course, I would
suggest that one avoid sending bitmapped characters to the LaserWriter
when at all possible.  Far better to go out and get the Adobe (or
other vendor) font.  Or did you have something else in mind?

Contrite,

Daniel