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Re: Adobe Type Manager

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From: Brian Diehm
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1989 19:15
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 >My complaint is that Adobe needs to look at the pricing structure of their
 >font families as they move from shared resources (laser printers) to
 >individual resources (my computer screen).  They should also consider *all*
 >of the LaserWriter Plus fonts to be the minimum set since realistically that
 >is in fact the minimum included in any PostScript laser printer.

 >Now if Adobe was selling ATM for $99, and it included all of the fonts
 >we are used to using, I would be ordering copies for all of our
 >Macintoshes, instead of trying to rationalize why I deserve one copy
 >for my Mac :-)

Bingo. Except I wouldn't use the smiley face.

$99 for ATM is a great price. $198 for typefaces I already use is too much.
Period.

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-Brian Diehm
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From: briand@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
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Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager
Keywords: ATM, Adobe, font imaging
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Date: 20 Sep 89 19:15:31 GMT
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