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From: tomd@cpl-mfh.UUCP (Tom Diakun )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Deskwriter & ATM
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Date: 5 Mar 90 20:44:33 GMT
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*** truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) writes:
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>From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell)
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
>Subject: Re: Deskwriter & ATM
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>zavdi@dduck.ctt.bellcore.com (Zavdi Lichtman) writes:
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>>This has been discussed before, but I did not save the info.
>>Does ATM improve the Deskwriter printing ...?
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>Improve?
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>If your DeskWriter output needs improving, you must not have installed
>the fonts according to directions.
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>  --scott
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>--
>Scott Truesdell

ATM will allow you to print out text using the Adobe (not HP) fonts.  I believe
that these are the type one fonts.  If you have access to the adobe fonts, there
you would normally for a laserWriter.  Make sure you have the screen fonts alled

If your are using Word 4.0 you will notice that manym fonts, however, are not
kerned properly.  I don't know what the bug is, but it can look pretty awful.

Take heart.  There is a product called MacRIP.  RIP stands for Raster Image
Processor.  This program interprets postscript code.  If you choose the
LaserWriter as your printer, you can set the output to a postscript file on dik.
With the chooser, select the DeskWriter and launch MacRIP.  It is unbelievably
slow, but it will interpret the post script file and print to a quickdraw
printer, i.e. the DeskWriter in full 300 dpi.  The LaserWriter doesn't look
any better.  It Even prints Illustrator 88 files perfectly.

Tom Diakun
Buffalo, NY