ggiergiel@vmsa.oac.uci.edu (10/06/89)
Three questions regarding ATM a) How do you generate character $F0 ? b) is vector encoding 'hard-wired' into ATM or will it read current definition of MACVECTOR from LaserPrep or FOND resource. c) Can one get bitmaps for unencoded characters. and a general one a) who is responsible for screwing up character dotaccent in Palatino family. Jerzy Giergiel, UCI, Physics
bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson) (10/07/89)
In article <3326@orion.cf.uci.edu> ggiergiel@vmsa.oac.uci.edu writes: >Three questions regarding ATM > >a) How do you generate character $F0 ? I'm not sure entirely what you mean. $F0 is the 'Apple' character available via option-shift-k. It is built as an outline for the fonts that ship with ATM and images smooth on the screen. Some applications will only deal with this character only in the Symbol font. Also, this character was originally only in Apple PostScript printers because we created it for them/their copyrighted/trademarked/registered? logo. I'm not positive if it's available on the non-Apple PostScript printers. To repeat, in ATM the Apple and other encoded characters appear 'smooth' at any size/resolution and should print that way. If you need further information, let me know. >b) is vector encoding 'hard-wired' into ATM or will it read current > definition of MACVECTOR from LaserPrep or FOND resource. The encoding is 'hard-wired' from the FOND to the specific outline, i.e. the FOND tells us via the style-links which outline to use and we go and get the info ATM needs from the outline (a very general idea of what ATM does). >c) Can one get bitmaps for unencoded characters. Since ATM isn't a PostScript interpreter, it won't let you re-encode characters like you can to a printer. So you can't use the unencoded characters. As a side note, you could use something like Smart Art to download code to get a bitmap for enencoded characters. >and a general one > >a) who is responsible for screwing up character dotaccent in Palatino > family. The ATM Plus pack will have fixes for problems (like the dotaccent) that were in some of the original fonts. Hope that answers your questions. -- Brian Bezanson bezanson@adobe.com Adobe Systems Incorporated The opinions expressed above are my own and may not represent those of Adobe.
ieee@smu.uucp (IEEE group account) (10/13/89)
I have a question about ATM. Can you generate bitmap fonts and save them as font resources? That would be useful for sizes that are used frequently. It's what FontSizer would do now. Fred Hollander Software Innovations, Inc.
bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson) (10/17/89)
In article <15963@pollux.UUCP> ieee@smu.UUCP (IEEE group account) writes: >I have a question about ATM. Can you generate bitmap fonts and save them >as font resources? That would be useful for sizes that are used frequently. >It's what FontSizer would do now. >Fred Hollander >Software Innovations, Inc. ATM won't save them as bitmaps. This is because ATM will generate the font you've requested on the fly. With FontSizer, you need a PostScript printer and ~20 minutes for each size you want - plus the disk space to save that size. With ATM, you just ask for the size and get it - the entire hit is ~50K of cache per face. If you use 15 point often, just ask for it. It will take from .5 - 10 seconds (depending on machine) to load in the outline and create the initial font, but once cached - speed isn't any different from a prebuilt bitmap. Unfortunately for the FontSizer people, ATM and System 7.0 remove the need for the program. Hope this answers you're questions/clarifies things. -- Brian Bezanson bezanson@adobe.com Adobe Systems Incorporated The opinions expressed above are my own and may not represent those of Adobe.