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Article #7167Re: Oddity in Courier font under ATM
From: Jeff Hallett x5163
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1989 17:07
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1989 17:07
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In article <13117@hercules.csl.sri.com> aida@csl.sri.com (Hitoshi Aida) writes:
>I sometimes prepare documents in my house using SE/30 and ImageWriter II,
>and produce final output at my office using with LaserWriter Plus.
>Recently I installed ATM, and found some interesting behavior in Courier
>family.
>
>First, all the images of "smart open quote" (code $d4) in bitmap font
>go from up-left to down-right, but ATM-generated image go from down-left
>to up-right. They look like:
Laborious discussion of WYSIWYG deleted.
Benzanson spoke at length on the fact that many of the fonts
distributed with ATM fix problems with the fonts resident in the
LaserWriter ROM. An open single quote should look like bottom-left to
upper-right.
However, if you wish to maintain commonality, you can install the
Courier family downloadable font files that came with ATM onto your
machine at work. Those fonts will be downloaded when the file prints
and look just like your original.
BTW, we just got ATM here and I'm not as impressed as I thought I
would be. The printing output is great (I'm impressed there), but the
screen versions don't really blow me out. The Symbol and Times are
noticeably better, but the Helvetica and Courier aren't that much
better. I guess the real advantage is having any size available when
you want it (ie. since no 72 point Helvetica is available, ATM makes
it look better and odd-sized fonts are better too).
It would be nice if ATM could verify its existence by somehow making
the system believe that all font sizes are available so all the font
sizes are outlined in Font menus. That would be neato.
On the whole, probably worth $57 (MacConnection price). If I get
desparate for Palatino, I might get the Plus Pack.
--
Jeffrey A. Hallett, PET Software Engineering
GE Medical Systems, W641, PO Box 414, Milwaukee, WI 53201
(414) 548-5163 : EMAIL - hallett@gemed.ge.com
"Your logic was impeccable Captain. We are in grave danger."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!mrsvr.UUCP!positron.uucp!hallett From: hallett@positron.uucp (Jeff Hallett x5163 ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Oddity in Courier font under ATM Message-ID: <1312@mrsvr.UUCP> Date: 26 Oct 89 17:07:18 GMT References: <13117@hercules.csl.sri.com> Sender: news@mrsvr.UUCP Reply-To: hallett@gemed.ge.com (Jeffrey A. Hallett (414) 548-5163) Organization: GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI Lines: 45