leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) (04/18/91)
In article <TALVOLA.91Apr16124953@janus.Berkeley.EDU> talvola@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Erik Talvola) writes: > >I recently uploaded a bunch of ATM fonts to cica.cica.indiana.edu. >Here are the files I uploaded: I appreciate any fonts that are made publicly available, but I do have questions: 1) Some of these fonts are "duplicates" (in name at least) to others that have already been uploaded. Are these replacements or just another persons interpretation of a "common font" and it is up to us as individuals to decide which interpretation we like best? If that is the case, does anybody know an easy way to compare the two? ... 2) how does ATM deal with two fonts using the same name? 3) Is there a way to rename (add additional characters) the fonts as supplied so that the end user can determine the source? I use a PS printer, but now with ATM I have no idea whether the selected font is the ATM or the intrinsic version ... for example I can select "zapf chancery" or "Zapf Chancery" in w4w. 4) I am getting rather fed-up with the slowness of ATM and so was considering (if possible) a separate win3 setup without it, but was wondering what the best way to do it is. I have tried disabling ATM (through the control panel), and save some initial win3 startup time, but it appears to make no difference in the slowness of all the other processes (calling up an empty notepad has gone from virtually instantaneously w/o ATM to 17 seconds with it ... argh !) Thanks to one and all ... I will summarize any email I receive. leoh@hdw.csd.harris.com Leo Hinds (305)973-5229 Gfx ... gfx ... :-) whfg orpnhfr V "ebg"grq zl fvtangher svyr lbh guvax V nz n creireg ?!!!!!!? ... znlor arkg gvzr
talvola@qin.Berkeley.EDU (Erik Talvola) (04/18/91)
To: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) In-reply-to: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com's message of 17 Apr 91 17:51:10 GMT Subject: Re: Fonts uploaded to cica & ATM questions --text follows this line-- From: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.windows.ms Date: 17 Apr 91 17:51:10 GMT Followup-To: comp.fonts Distribution: comp Organization: Harris Computer Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, FL In article <TALVOLA.91Apr16124953@janus.Berkeley.EDU> talvola@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Erik Talvola) writes: > >I recently uploaded a bunch of ATM fonts to cica.cica.indiana.edu. >Here are the files I uploaded: I appreciate any fonts that are made publicly available, but I do have questions: 1) Some of these fonts are "duplicates" (in name at least) to others that have already been uploaded. Are these replacements or just another persons interpretation of a "common font" and it is up to us as individuals to decide which interpretation we like best? If that is the case, does anybody know an easy way to compare the two? ... 2) how does ATM deal with two fonts using the same name? ATM will only allow 1 font with a given name. However, a couple of the duplicates aren't really exact duplicates (you can see this if you check the file sizes). In that case, I edited the PFB font to have a slightly different name, then kept the one that looked better, or both if they were different enough. 3) Is there a way to rename (add additional characters) the fonts as supplied so that the end user can determine the source? I use a PS printer, but now with ATM I have no idea whether the selected font is the ATM or the intrinsic version ... for example I can select "zapf chancery" or "Zapf Chancery" in w4w. Look at the font files in your psfonts directory - the original Adobe ones all have Adobe fonts - so look at those names and use those if you want the real thing. Some people have made clone fonts, like the lowercase "zapf chancery" - but they won't have Adobe's copyright. 4) I am getting rather fed-up with the slowness of ATM and so was considering (if possible) a separate win3 setup without it, but was wondering what the best way to do it is. I have tried disabling ATM (through the control panel), and save some initial win3 startup time, but it appears to make no difference in the slowness of all the other processes (calling up an empty notepad has gone from virtually instantaneously w/o ATM to 17 seconds with it ... argh !) I noticed this too - ATM really slows down as you add fonts. To disable ATM, edit the SYSTEM.INI file and take out the ATM stuff (this is described in the manual, and is easy to figure out anyway). Then, you can make a couple batch files which copy either the SYSTEM.INI for ATM, or a SYSTEM.INI without anything to the SYSTEM.INI, and then run Windows. That's what I do. If I just want to play Solitare or something, no ATM, but if I want to do word processing, I use ATM, and leave the room for a while. Thanks to one and all ... I will summarize any email I receive. leoh@hdw.csd.harris.com Leo Hinds (305)973-5229 Gfx ... gfx ... :-) whfg orpnhfr V "ebg"grq zl fvtangher svyr lbh guvax V nz n creireg ?!!!!!!? ... znlor arkg gvzr