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>I'm not interested in 500 point type on 21 inch monitors.  I don't
>use 500 point type or 21 inch monitors (not at home, anyway).  What
>I want to know is how well does it work with 11 point type, or 8 point
>type?  Is the size of the cache user-controllable?  What is the
>minimum memory I can get away with using for it?  How many fonts can
>be stored in a cache?  How long does it take to generate the fonts
>on a stock Mac Plus?  What happens when the cache is filled?
>Basically, what the question comes down to is, what kind of tradeoff
>in terms of memory and speed do I have to make in order to use this
>on my Mac Plus?

Sorry but we didn't have the Plus version available for the demo.  According
to the brochure, ATM will work on Pluses but since I did notice a slight
slowdown of screen display on a IIX (about 15%), I'd guesstamate the penalty
to be higher than that on a Mac Plus.

In between type sizes like 11 and 7 etc looked considerably better than the
Apple technique of bit map shrinking or expansion BUT a 72 DPI display will 
not create something that looks like laserwriter quality @ 300 dpi.

As for the memory consideration, If I kept it at 64K I found that more than two fonts would start bogging the display down.  It must start reading the oulines
from the hard drive.  The more fonts you use per document the more you'll need
to allocate to the font cache to avoid screen display slowdowns.

Now all of these comments were based on the pre-release version of ATM. Brian
already indicated a change in the cache memory technique.  So temper your
opinions with that in mind.  But from what I've seen I'll be the first on my
block to buy a copy of ATM.

Mel Shear
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