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Sorry folks,

    ...but I'm getting a lot of bounced mail.  The following letter and
my reply to him may be of benefit to others, though...

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Thanks for the info on Adobe Type Manager and Spectre.

I was wondering what printer driver you use and how that ties
in to ATM? I use the Grappler LS driver under Spectre to drive
my deskjet, and it comes with a set of fonts called G-Dutch and
G-Swiss. I get 300-dpi fonts (no jaggies), because the Grappler Driver
uses the 4x version of the screen font to print to the Deskjet (e.g.,
the 12-point screen font is printed using the corresponding 48-point
font).

Would ATM make my printer driver unnecessary? Thanks for any info,

Rana Dutt
rcd@mtqua.att.com
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Rana,

    I've a feeling that Grappler LS drivers may have a fit with ATM,
but I have not tested the Grappler program yet.  The reason that I say
that is because Grappler LS does not support PostScript, so they say.
    ATM still requires a printer driver.  The one that I really like
is from DataPak.  I don't know its price, though.
    I understand that there are several PD/shareware drivers
out there.  I believe that they are listed in Dave Small's newsletter.
    At LISTSERV@RICE, there are two files which are in the domain:

              DESKJET-DRIVER and DESKJET-DRIVER-MANUAL.

    To get these type:

         $MACARCH GET UTIL/DESKJET-DRIVER.HQX
         $MACARCH GET UTIL/DESKJET-DRIVER-MANUAL.HQX

    I have found that the smaller fonts are cleaner than Grappler's.
Also, you can save a lot of disk space with ATM.  All you need are the
10 and 12 points of the font family to get sizes up to whatever.  I'm
able to use 100 point with no problem at all.
    Installation is not particularly clear via the manual (sound
familiar?).  Basically, you merely install the outline fonts in
your System Folder (generous samples are on the ATM disk) and install
ATM's bitmap fonts into the System program.
    ATM claims that if you already have bitmapped fonts of the same
name as that supplied by ATM, that you don't need to replace those.
However, my bitmapped fonts were really huge in space since they
went above 12 point in size.  ATM only needs a maximum of 12 point
to give you beautiful type so I swapped fonts.
    Obviously, if you are using a large font for a utility, such
as SuperClock, then you'd want to keep that point size.  I've found
that utilities will not access ATM.  ATM is only used via document
processors.  Also, no skewing of characters, or character rotation
is supported by ATM.
    Be sure to read on the net all the corrections that other users
will be making of my letter!  I'm sure that I've goofed up somewhere
in trying to explain all of this.  At any rate, ATM is a great
addition to the Spectre GCR.  I love it.
    Even at a list price of $99.00, it is a great program.

Larry Rymal:  |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>