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In article <mike_steiner-061192141315@192.35.50.131> mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
>In article <Bx7qL7.5CH@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>,
>cbsmith@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Chris Smith) wrote:
>> 
>> -- 
>> $7.50 ATM gives you display postscript. The expensive one gives you "Multiple Master" capability if you are into it.
>> 
>> --Bo ("the One who Knows")
>
>ATM does not give you Display Postscript.  Display Postscript involves a
>lot more than just fonts; it is the entire display or printout.  At best,
>one might say that ATM is a subset of Display Postscript.

Both the $50 ATM and the $7.50 ATM allow your Mac to display Postscript
FONTS -- as in CHARACTERS.  It doesn't display Postscript; there are
several, somewhat expensive programs (such as Freedom of the Press) that
allow you to preview Postscript.

ATM 3.0 (the current version) allows your Mac to display multiple master
fonts, and you can get ATM 3.0 for $7.50.  If you don't use multiple
master fonts (if you don't know what they are, then you probably don't
use them) and you don't use 7.1, then you can use ATM 2.03.  According
to reports, ATM 2.03 is about half the size of ATM 3.0.

The real difference between the $50 ATM and the $7.50 ATM is that the
$7.50 ATM (either 2.x or 3.0) only has the Adobe Garamond font family
and no others.  The $50 version has Postscript versions of (most of?)
the standard Mac fonts (Times, Symbol, etc.) but does not include the
Garamond font.  All versions of ATM will allow you to add other
purchased, shareware, or freeware type 1 (Postscript) fonts to your
system.

I'm currently using ATM 2.03 (the $7.50 version ;-) ) on my PowerBook
100, and I'm quite happy with it.  I grabbed a bunch of type 1 fonts
off the archives, and most of them worked wonderfully!  I mix TrueType
fonts with type 1 fonts in my documents (since I don't have a type 1
version of Times), and my DeskWriter has no trouble at all with this.

Bryan


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