djsx@midway.uchicago.edu (Dan Swartling) (06/02/91)
I just received my copy of the Adobe Type on Call CD and am very much pleased with it, although it takes a loooong time for the printer font partition to mount and open (must be due to the encryption). I noticed a minor but irritating problem, though. I replaced my copy of ATM 1.2 with ATM 2.0 from the CD-ROM, and copied the Type on Call init to my system folder. I registered my disk and claimed my two free font packages with no problem. Then I opened MS Word 4.0 and tried to use my new fonts only to encounter the jaggies! Rebooting several times did nothing, until I noticed that the Type on Call icon appeared during startup, and the icon for ATM did not! I then surmised that if I changed the name of Type on Call, things might work. Thus I added a tilde before the name "Type on Call" (a la ~ATM) and rebooted. This time ~ATM _did_ load, followed by Type on Call. Peace finally reigns (for the moment). This happens with both system 6.0.5 and 6.0.7; I will check this with 7.0 in a few minutes and add a follow-up to this post. If ATM loads before TOC, everything is fine; if TOC loads before ATM, ATM does _not_ load at startup. Is this a bug, a quirk with my machine, or something already known by the high exalted postscript priests at Adobe? I am using a Mac IIci with 4M memory, systems 6 & 7, Gatekeeper and a couple of other inits (one being TOPS, which the manual says must load first, if I remember right (the manual is at home)). If anyone else notices this please post, else send e-mail to tell me that I am crazy! More later... ########################################################################## # # # Dr. Daniel J Swartling Internet: djsx@midway.uchicago.edu # # The Ben May Institute Compuserve: 71620,1300 # # The University of Chicago America Online: CHEMSTUD # # 5841 S Maryland Ave, Box 424 ACS Organic BBS: DASTMAN # # Chicago, IL 60637 Applelink: DSWART # # # # ergo cognito zoom- I think, therefore I go fast # # # ##########################################################################