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In article <1208@adobe.UUCP> bezanson@adobe.UUCP (Brian Bezanson) writes:
>In article <1019@mrsvr.UUCP> hallett@gemed.ge.com (Jeffrey A. Hallett (414) 548-5163) writes:
>>In article <752@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu> jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Jeffrey C. Kantor) writes:
>>>2.  If I already have an HP deskwriter w/fonts and am basically pretty
>>>pleased, is there anything that ATM will do for me? 
>
>>You won't get anything unless you decide that you want to use Adobe fonts.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>This statement is not correct. On the printer, you might get similar results 
>- for similar fonts, but on the screen is where you'll see the difference. Try
>getting a 13 point, 44, 99, etc... with the non-Adobe/ATM fonts. You can't
>unless you make your own with Fontographer, or use FontSizer to make a bitmap
>for some size. Both take a lot of time and aren't anywhere as flexible.
>
>ATM isn't just for printers - it's for any output device. Screen and printer
>being the most popular, but for all those people using film recorders and
>dying for PostScript fonts, it's 'the' solution.


Yeah, I realize it is for any output device.  I don't see where your
follow up fits in.  Basically, we were told by the receptroid at the
Adobe booth at MacWorld Expo in Boston, that ATM only clarifies Adobe
fonts.  Since you work at Adobe, I would think that you would know
what is going on, so maybe she was wrong.  

If ATM will give nice, pretty screen representations for ANY size on
ANY font, explain to me then from where it gets the information to
compute the outline.  Basically, the booth person said that ATM
installs a piece of PostScript code that can read the Adobe
downloadabe font file, extract the outline information and compute the
font size for the user on the fly.  Without that font file, no outline
information is available so how does ATM compute for non-Adobe fonts?

Also, tell me then, if it is 'the' solution, why should people spend
$99 dollars to buy ATM rather than wait until System 7.0 release?  The
booth person said that System 7.0 would not handle Adobe fonts and
that ATM would - her reasoning what that Adobe users should use both
to access both their current Adobe fonts and future Apple fonts and
that non-Adobe font users would not benefit from ATM.


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