mjv@iris.brown.edu (Marshall Vale) (12/12/89)
First I will take Dave Small's advise and make this small (no pun intended,
well, ok maybe some) statement:
In a previous article I made some comments about legally obtaining Apple
products. Those comments were just In My Humble Opinion and I do not
have any legal expertise in which to say they are fact. Please take those
words as opinion and not fact. In other words, don't try it at home
kiddies.
**Nice to see you on the Net Dave S.!**
Well, on with the show:
I've found out some more things about the Adobe Type Manager. The only
fonts that you can use are Type 1 Adobe _Encrypted_ fonts. Type 3 fonts
will not work. Type 3 is the general PostScript font format used by
most third parties. Type 1 Encrypted is a special format that has hints
in it to produce more legible type at lower pritner resolutions
(read: 300dpi). This practically kills the PD Postscript market for ATM so
make note of this before you buy fonts. Also, Bitstreams PS fonts which
ARE Type 1 format will NOT work either. Bitstreams says they will fix this
soon. So basically for now, you are limited to the Adobe catalog of fonts
($$$) and the Linotype library.
The area where people will see the best results from ATM will be the
3rd party laserprinter and ink jet owners such as the HP laserjet and
inkjet. These printers will be able to produce outstanding fonts at low
point size. Low point size fonts on dot matrix printers will look about the
same. High point size fonts will look good on both printers. (this fact
has made a lot of ImageWriter owners mad since ATM was originally pushed
on them.) Basically, it looks like people who have the ink jet and other
laserprinters (like Rich Covert's Panasonic) will do wonderful job mostly
since there are printer drivers available for them. (the Panasonic
emulates an HP laserjet if I remeber correctly.)
The speed of ATM starts to really bog down when you have a large variety
of fonts that it calculated on screen at once. Most this will only happen
when using desktop publishing software and especially when zooming in
really close on files.
On a stranger note, a friend reported to me that when he printed out the
logo for his company on his imagewriter with ATM installed, the logo
printed slighty different each time. This was a small SuperPaint 2 file.
I'm going to look into this a bit more. The changes in the logo were
subtle but enough to be noticeable.
Enjoy!
-- mjv@iris.brown.edu
[all words are IMHO and not representative of my employeers. I don't work
for HP or Panasonic, though I once lived in a town where HP had site, and
I do proudly own a Spectre GCR and would recommend David Small's work
to anyone.]
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