psiuk@remus.rutgers.edu (Joseph Psiuk) (03/28/91)
Without trying to sound redundant, is there anybody out there who can tell me the phone number to call to request the 1.1 upgrade for ATM? Also, EXACTLY which fonts are included with the upgrade? New fonts? More fonts? The same ol' fonts? etc. Thank you in advance... Joseph J. Psiuk Rutgers University Microcomputer Resource Center
altman@sbpmt.cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman) (03/30/91)
There are no new fonts in the upgrade. With Pagemaker 4.0 comes a copy of ATM 1.1. However, it has a different set of initial fonts than is shipped in the standard shelf packaging. The number to call is (800) 344-8335. here is the readme.txt file that comes with the upgrade: ---------------------------------------------------------- Adobe Type Manager (R) 1.1 Release Notes Windows Version January 25, 1991 Adobe Type Manager is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Copyright 1983-1991 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Patents Pending. ------------------------------------------------------------ APPLICATION-SPECIFIC NOTES >> Ami Professional 1.2 > Twelve point Tms Rmn text may not enlarge in Ami's Enlarged view. This also occurs without ATM. Use Times instead of Tms Rmn. > If you use Ami's "Pair Kerning" option, wait until you are ready to print before activating it, rather than leaving it on all the time. >> Corel Draw 1.21 & 2.0 This version of Corel Draw does not support ATM. >> Designer 3.01 Scaling text after rotating does not work correctly in this version of Designer. Text should be scaled before it is rotated. >> PageMaker 3.01 > For the best results with ATM, set the "vector text above" limit in PageMaker's Preferences dialog to 600 pixels (the maximum). Earlier versions had a maximum of 127 pixels. > Underline and strikeout lines may appear broken when automatic kerning and/or justification is in effect, due to the way PageMaker handles automatic kerning. >> PowerPoint 2.0 For the best results at small point sizes on screen, remove the "Small Fonts" font using the "Fonts" option in the Windows Control Panel. >> Toolbook 1.0 Text may appear jagged when printed from Toolbook. This is because Toolbook does its own scaling of the screen image for printing, rather than using Windows' (or ATM's) font facilities. >> Ventura Publisher Windows Edition v3.0 > Backspacing at the end of a line sometimes causes the line to move down the screen one line per backspace. This also occurs without ATM. >> Word for Windows 1.1 > The typeface used in the ruler and in the status bar may not be Helvetica. This is normal -- Word uses the first variable pitch sans-serif font available in the [Fonts] section of your ATM.INI file. > The bullet character displays and prints as a lowercase "o". This is a feature of Word. ----------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL HINTS AND TIPS >> Use "Times" and "Helvetica" rather than "Tms Rmn" and "Helv" Both Times and Tms Rmn appear in your applications' font menus when ATM is on. While ATM automatically substitutes Times whenever it sees Tms Rmn (for backward compatibility with existing documents), it is more reliable to explicitly select Times from your applications. The same is true for Helvetica vs. Helv. >> Maximum number of fonts The maximum number of fonts that can be installed for ATM 1.0 is 460. >> Windows vector fonts ATM will substitute its scalable Times and Helvetica for Windows' Roman and Modern, respectively, in order to eliminate the "stick- figure" appearance of these fonts. If you don't want ATM to make this substitution, delete the following two lines from the [Aliases] section of your ATM.INI file: Roman=Times Modern=Helvetica >> PostScript printer font downloading The "Add font" option in the ATM Control Panel adds the selected fonts to every PostScript printer in WIN.INI as manual download fonts. This configuration minimizes print time since fonts will not be downloaded by Windows every time there is a font change in your document. However, it does require that the desired fonts be resident in the printer (either in memory or on the printer's hard disk) before printing. You can reconfigure a manual download font as an automatic download font by modifying its entry in the PostScript section of WIN.INI. See the documentation provided with your font package for more information. >> Re-installing ATM If you already have a version of ATM installed on your system, turn it off using the ATM Control Panel and restart Windows before running the ATM Installer. >> Font cache setting If you set ATM's font cache to be larger than the amount of memory available on your PC, you may not be able to run the ATM Control Panel. If this happens, quit Windows and use a DOS editor (such as edlin) to delete the line "FontCache=xxx" in the ATM.INI file. Then re-start Windows and use the ATM Control Panel to set the font cache to the desired value. ------------------------------------------------------------ TROUBLESHOOTING Problem: ATM displays the message, "ATM fonts and PostScript printer fonts don't match on xxx". Solution: "xxx" is the name of the first font that does not match. This message appears if your PostScript printer is not "active" or if there are more fonts installed for ATM than for your PostScript printer. To reactivate your printer, you must use the "Printers" option in the Windows Control Panel; selecting the printer from your application's "printer setup" menu alone is not enough. Problem: The "Add Font" option in the ATM Control Panel does not work with Monotype font packages. Solution: Rename the outline font (.PFB) filenames to be the same as the corresponding metrics (.PFM) filenames before using the ATM Control Panel to add these fonts. Problem: Justified text sometimes extends beyond the right margin on screen. Solution: Turn off the "Use pre-built or resident bitmap fonts" option in the ATM Control Panel. Problem: Italic or script fonts are sometimes clipped at the end of a line or at the current cursor position. Solution: This is a limitation of Windows and affects only screen display of text. The text will print correctly with ATM. Problem: Some colors of text print incorrectly on an HP PaintJet. Solution: Version 1.0 of the HP PaintJet driver and version 1.0 of Zenographics' SuperPrint do not correctly support color printing with ATM. Version 1.1 of SuperPrint corrects this problem. Problem: Ventura Publisher v3.0 displays a "Divide by zero" error message. Solution: This is due to the way Ventura Publisher manages font information. Exit Ventura Publisher, remove some fonts using the ATM Control Panel, and restart Windows. Problem: Selecting text in Ami Professional 1.2 seems sluggish. Solution: Turn off the "Pair Kerning" option in Ami's Defaults menu until you are ready to print. The sluggishness also occurs without ATM when using printers that support automatic kerning (such as PostScript printers). The sluggishness is due to Ami's extra overhead in doing its kerning calculations. Since ATM provides automatic kerning capabilities for all Windows-supported printers, this suggestion also applies to non-PostScript printers. Problem: Courier text is clipped at sizes below 9 point on screen and on printed output. Solution: In order to avoid problems with a few applications that do not handle Courier correctly, ATM must return a fixed size screen bitmapped font for small sizes. You can change this by deleting the following line from the [Aliases] section of your ATM.INI file: Courier=Courier ATM will then provide the exact (unclipped) size of Courier requested by your applications. Note that some applications don't expect to actually receive the size they requested. For example, the numbers ... -- - Jeff (jaltman@ccmail.sunysb.edu)