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     I just installed ATM.  The installation is easy, but the program has a
number of annoying glitches that lessen its usability.

1)  When using the font selection box on Word for Windows, the box claims that
fonts which are available from the printer (ie. cartridge fonts) are now all
printable in all sizes from 6 to 48 point.  Of course this is nonsense.  You
have to remember what the actual font size is of a cartridge font,
independently of the display of point sizes in the list box.

2) Helvetica and Times Roman fonts are duplicated somehow (both Helv and
Helvetica, and Tms Rmn and Times Roman appear in the list box of Word for
Windows).

3) Although point sizes of 6 are listed for supported fonts, the screen fonts
are limited to 8 point and larger.  Thus asking for 6 point Helvetica gets you
6 point printing, but an 8 point incorrectly spaced screen display.  This can
be fixed however by changing the point size listed in the SynonymPSBegin= line
of the ATM.INI file to 6.

4) Inspite of the advertising on the package which promises better screen
fonts, some screen fonts are worse with ATM turned on than with it turned off.
I frequently use 10 point Helvetica bold.  Using Window's built-in Helvetica
screen fonts, the screen output is quite acceptable.  With ATM turned on, the
bold Helvetica display is quite ugly, with very poorly formed letters in many
cases.  I suspect that the ATM fonts might actually be a better approximation
to the printed output, but the original Windows fonts are far easier to look
at.

5) The first time Windows has to display a given font, there is a substantial
pause (presumably while the screen font is calculated).  This is particular
noticable when turning to the Fonts section of the Control Panel, where it
takes ages to display the font samples at the bottom of the display box.
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Bruce Dunn   Vancouver, Canada    a752@mindlink.UUCP