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Re: Adobe Type Manager

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From: Ralph Brandi
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1989 19:29
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In article <40@fleet.UUCP> mel@.UUCP () writes:

>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.

I rarely use more than two or three fonts per document anyway, so
that doesn't sound too bad.

>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.

I think I may be the second on my block--I'm definitely interested,
but I'd still like to try it on the first guy's machine to see how 
it performs....
-- 
Ralph Brandi     ralph@lzfme.att.com     att!lzfme!ralph

Work flows toward the competent until they are submerged.
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From: ralph@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (Ralph Brandi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager
Keywords: Adobe ATM Type Manager
Message-ID: <770@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 89 19:29:30 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Commercial Art
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