preston@lll-crg.llnl.gov (David R Preston) (12/05/90)
According to the user guide for Adobe Type Manager for Windows:
The ATM program is compatible with...Type 1 format font
software, including the Adobe Type Library fonts, and Type
1 font software package[s] from Linotype, Agfa-Compugraphic,
Varityper, Monotype, Autologic, Bitstream, and The Font
Company.
All well and good, except I called Bitstream today and asked for a list
or catalog of their fonts that can be used with ATM. They told me that
their fonts can't be used with ATM. I said "Don't you sell type 1 fonts?"
The reply was "We have scalable fonts. They are not true Type 1 fonts."
At least I think he said "They are not true Type 1 fonts",
maybe it was "They are not TrueType 1.0 fonts" :-)
Anyway, sounds like what we have here is a corporate failure to commun'cate.
-david
preston@lll-crg.llnl.gov
B4 f+ t- k+ s-/+ r P8/3 S6 b+/- g- l-/+ y- z/! n o+/++ x a+ u v-- j++
D. R. Preston 584 Castro St. #614 SF CA 94114 USApreston@lll-crg.llnl.gov (David R Preston) (12/07/90)
In article <87251@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> preston@lll-crg.llnl.gov (David R Preston) writes: >According to the user guide for Adobe Type Manager for Windows: > > The ATM program is compatible with...Type 1 format font > software, including the Adobe Type Library fonts, and Type > 1 font software package[s] from Linotype, Agfa-Compugraphic, > Varityper, Monotype, Autologic, Bitstream, and The Font > Company. > >All well and good, except I called Bitstream today and asked for a list >or catalog of their fonts that can be used with ATM. They told me that >their fonts can't be used with ATM. I said "Don't you sell type 1 fonts?" >The reply was "We have scalable fonts. They are not true Type 1 fonts." The situation has been explained to me. Bitstream sells Type 1 fonts. Bitstream sells Type 1 fonts that can be used for ATM. On the Mac. Not on the PC. Bitsteam sells scalable fonts that can be used by some applications on the PC, but not Windows, or ATM for Windows. Yet. Adobe erred in the "user guide" for ATM for Windows; perhaps they just included the entire list of companies licensed to sell Type 1 fonts, without considering whether they were actually available in PC format. -david preston@lll-crg.llnl.gov B4 f+ t- k+ s-/+ r P8/3 S6 b+/- g- l-/+ y- z/! n o+/++ x a+ u v-- j++ D. R. Preston 584 Castro St. #614 SF CA 94114 USA
glenn@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com (Glenn P. Parker) (12/07/90)
In article <87421@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> preston@lll-crg.llnl.gov, (David R Preston) writes: > Bitsteam sells scalable fonts that can be used by some applications on > the PC, but not Windows, or ATM for Windows. Yet. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A slight correction: Bitstream sells FaceLift, which provides scalable fonts for Windows 2.x and 3.0 applications, similar to ATM for Windows. In addition, there are other versions of FaceLift for some non-Windows applications. The main point here is that the fonts that come with FaceLift are not Type 1 fonts, so ATM cannot use them. I have suggested that Bitstream's sales people should state this more clearly for future callers. FWIW, FaceLift and ATM for Windows can be run simultaneously (giving you the best of both worlds :-). -Glenn- -- Glenn P. Parker glenn@bitstream.com Bitstream, Inc. uunet!huxley!glenn 215 First Street BIX: parker Cambridge, MA 02142-1270