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In article <1474@intercon.com> amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>In article <22693@cup.portal.com>, Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott)
>writes:
>> 
>> - Apple has said it will not support rotated text with its Royal scheme.
>>   Will ATM offer that?
>> 
>
>Royal itself isn't the problem--it's QuickDraw that won't handle rotation.
>ATM will probably have the same problem.
>
>The question I have is whether or not Apple and/or Adobe will put in rotation
>"hooks" (such as interpreting the LaserWriter Driver PicComments) that will
>allow drawing programs to ask for it.  That would be something of extreme
>niftyness...

I think what most people mean by rotated text (correct me if I'm wrong ;-)
is printing text that has been rotated by Applications such as canvas, MacDraw,
etc... All they do is some off screen rotation of the bitmap and then
copybit(ing) it over. These applications print fine with ATM to PostScript or
QuickDraw based printers. I can't comment on Royal fonts here. As for future
versions of ATM - I'll mark down your suggestions and pass them on to the
product manager.

I also wanted to add a few answers to Bill Mariott's earlier questions (rn
would crash when I tried).

1) ATM and Adobe Illustrator. A new version of Adobe Illustrator will be shipped
   to all registered AI 88 owners (version 1.9). It will be compatible with ATM,
   will save EPS files w/color previews, compatible w/32 bit QuickDraw, and
   work with the Adobe Originals Expert sets. Before you ask when it will be
   available, it just went into Q.A., with a mass mailing to all owners it 
   should be arriving end of October-beginning November. I'll post further
   details. AI 88 1.9 won't edit the outlines and I can't comment on the
   version 3.0 release yet :-)

2) Font Folio (entire Adobe Type library on a disk) comes w/a back-up copy of
   the outlines that can be used on a Mac. Unfortunately you can't read the
   outlines off of the printers hard disk* - besides it would violate some
   legal agreement somewhere, speed would be horrible, etc... You still get
   speed benefits of having the drive on the printer (saves downloading time
   and for users who might not have ATM installed). The outlines need to be
   in the System Folder unless you relocate them with MasterJuggler 1.5 or
   Suitcase II 1.2.5 (or later versions). (*) I can't comment entirely on that
   topic.

3) Rotated text - see above original question.
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Brian Bezanson                                          bezanson@adobe.com
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