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In article <cZEx8GG00UhW83cHYf@andrew.cmu.edu>, dw2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Duane T. Williams) writes:
> 
> I find it interesting that many people seem to like ATM.  I've tried it
> with my 1MB Mac Plus and ImageWriter.  I don't have lots of cache memory
> available.  Font scaling on screen is extremely slow; so it is only
> usable with screen fonts that don't have to be scaled.  Hence, it

Even on my 4 Mb SE, font scaling was slow (although it was interesting to
hit a key and then watch the HD light go "blitter blitter blitter" as ATM
grabbed outline information (I presume)).  I converted the bitmapped fonts
that came with ATM with the freeware NFNT program, and that screwed them
up, something that did NOT happen with the Adobe Screenfonts I picked
up from Sumex-aim.  Redraw was real slow, and not *that* spectacular.

> doesn't improve the appearance of my fonts on screen.  I typically use
> 9, 10 and 12 point fonts for my correspondence.  At these sizes using
> ATM makes a negligible difference in the quality of my printed output. 
> In some cases, letting Apple's printer driver scale down a double sized
> font gives nicer output than ATM produces.  On my system ATM doesn't
> live up to either of its advertised benefits, and the loss of RAM for
> the font cache hurts, as does the poor performance when ATM scaling is
> required.
> 
> Duane Williams
> dtw@cs.cmu.edu


My favorite font is Garamond-3.  I have it in screenfont.  I used to be
real keen on Times.  I thought this would be the time to change back. BUT
Garamond-3 bitmapped looks BETTER than Times-ATM. The only font in the ATM
package that looked "nicer" was ... Courier. 

Don't get me wrong - I think ATM just isn't going to make the ImageWriter II
live any longer.  I'm hoping that ATM will work better on a DeskWriter, but
I dunno, since I don't own one (yet hope hope).  The >20pt fonts WERE 
NICER, both on screen and in print.  

ATM also seemed to be incompatible with MacScheme. Dunno for sure, though.

Oh well.  I was hoping (really hoping) that ATM would make me love my IWII
more. *Sigh*. At least Garamond-3 never looked so good!

Roger Espinosa
rre@ihlpn.ATT.COM