Xref: utzoo comp.fonts:2468 comp.sys.mac.apps:5891
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!yale!cs.yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!ciancarini-paolo
From: ciancarini-paolo@cs.yale.edu (paolo ciancarini)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Adobe Type Manager and postscript files
Summary: while after installing ATM my postscript files are so huge?
Keywords: ATM, postscript
Message-ID: <1991May8.185123.6001@cs.yale.edu>
Date: 8 May 91 18:51:23 GMT
Sender: Paolo Ciancarini
Followup-To: comp.fonts
Distribution: usa
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Lines: 28
Originator: cianca@poe.CS.Yale.Edu
Nntp-Posting-Host: poe.systemsy.cs.yale.edu

I have just installed my Adobe Type Manager 2.0 in my MacPortable, system 6.0.4;
I removed my old fonts, and started using the fonts that came
with the package.

Since in my office there is not an Appletalk connection,
I print my Mac documents on a laserprinter connected to a Sun.
I upload my Postscript files
using a serial cable and a terminal program;
then I print the files from the Sun using the program macps.

I see that after installing ATM the Postscript files created by my Mac
are MUCH MUCH longer: for instance, a one page Word file, that before ATM was about 2-3K
when saved as postscript, now it is more than 50K !
So uploading the files now takes minutes instead of seconds.

I would like to keep installed ATM, but also have short Postscript files
to upload. Is this impossible?
Note that I did a try also disactivating ATM through the Control Panel 
before creating the Postscript image, but nothing changed:
huge files were created again.

Any help will be appreciated. And any pointer
to a document introducing ATM, Truetype, Type 1 fonts,
type 3 fonts, etc., would be welcome
(is there a FAQ in this newsgroup? I never saw one
in the last six months).

Paolo Ciancarini