buyskes@lafcol.UUCP (Steven Buyske) (09/16/89)
I know that the basic "Laserwriter fonts" come with ATM, and I know that it works with whatever (Adobe-only?) postscript fonts you have on disk, but will there be a cheap add-on for ATM that will yield the "Laserwriter Plus fonts"? (Palatino, Bookman, Schoolbook, and AvanteGarde families) Steve Buyske uucp : rutgers!lehi3b15!lafcol!buyskes Mathematics Department Bitnet : BUYSKES@LAFAYETT Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042
bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson) (09/16/89)
In article <1516@lafcol.UUCP> buyskes@lafcol.UUCP (Steven Buyske) writes: >... but will there be a cheap add-on for ATM that will >yield the "Laserwriter Plus fonts"? (Palatino, Bookman, Schoolbook, >and AvanteGarde families) We've announced the Plus-Pak of outlines that will ship the same time ATM ships and they will include (Avant Garde, Bookman, New Century School Book, Palatino, Zapf Chancery, and Zapf Dingbats. I believe the suggested price is around $199 - but for actual numbers and info, call 800/344-8335 (US and Canada). ---- Brian Bezanson bezanson@adobe.com Adobe Systems
kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman) (09/17/89)
In article <1209@adobe.UUCP> bezanson@adobe.UUCP (Brian Bezanson) writes: >We've announced the Plus-Pak of outlines that will ship the same time ATM >ships and they will include (Avant Garde, Bookman, New Century School Book, >Palatino, Zapf Chancery, and Zapf Dingbats. I believe the suggested price >is around $199 - but for actual numbers and info, call 800/344-8335 (US and >Canada). That price, added to the $99 for the cost of ATM brings the total cost up to $300 in order to have my mac screen mimic my laserwriter. Now, that doesn't sound like too bad a deal for good quality imagewriter output, but it really makes the ATM a bad buy if you are only looking for improvement in the on-screen representation. ---- Stephen Kurtzman | "You might be the largest Elizabeth, but kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu | Elizabeth is still a good name to have if | you're a girl." -- the Roches
stevem@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Steve Miller) (09/19/89)
>> The reason for this is (correct me if I'm >> wrong) the H.P. and LaserWriter SC use bitmaps/screen fonts that have 4x sizes >> [ some stuff deleted here, and above] >> Brian Bezanson bezanson@adobe.com >> Adobe Systems >> ... > > THe HP DeskWriter does use outline fonts, not 4x bitmaps. At >least this is what the manual says. So once again, does the Adobe Type >Manager enhance the functionality of the Deskwriter beyond the use of >the extensive Adobe font collections (which, of course, is a very nice >enhancement all by itself). > > >Jeff Kantor You are correct Jeff, the DeskWriter does use outline fonts (sorry Brian). From my limited experience of ATM on a DeskWriter I found the following enhancements: Rotated text in other than 90 degree increments is often of higher quality. The outline and shadow enhancements are of higher quality. On a Mac SE the throughput is generally a little higher (5-10% higher) for text output and a litter lower on graphics only output. On problem: This was a beta release of ATM, but there were some spacing problems on some of the output. Since this was a beta release I assume that this has probably been fixed. Steven Miller Vancouver Division Hewlett Packard -- Jeff Kantor US Mail: Dept. of Chemical Engineering internet: jeff@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu University of Notre Dame uucp: iuvax!ndmath!ndcheg!jeff Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA ----------