[comp.sys.mac.apps] Adobe Type Reunion Experience?

marc_h@ele.tue.nl (Marc Heijligers) (07/23/90)

Hello,

I like to know if anyone has any experience with Adobe Type Reunion. Is it
safe, e.g. does it has any collision with other inits? And is it reliable?

If you know anything, please mail me.

Marc Heijligers
marc_h@ele.tue.nl

isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) (07/23/90)

In article <530@al.ele.tue.nl> marc_h@ele.tue.nl (Marc Heijligers) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I like to know if anyone has any experience with Adobe Type Reunion. Is it
>safe, e.g. does it has any collision with other inits? And is it reliable?

I love ATR (Adobe Type Reunion).  I probably run more INITs than than
the average person and have had no conflicts so far.  (Actually, I'm
sure I run more than the average person.)
 
ATR is a big step up from Apple's way of doing things...
 
Ken



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kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Kok Yong Tan) (07/24/90)

Well, there appears to be 2 minor problems with it:

1.  The Suitcase II option-key combination which displays the list of fonts in
their respective font styles no longer works.

2.   It causes Super 3D to store any new preference files at the same level as
the system folder instead of the same level as the Super 3D application.  This
causes Super 3D to NOT recognize new preferences unless the preference files
are physically moved down again.  Just a pain in the ass, really.


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roskill@cs.umass.edu (07/25/90)

In article <1990Jul24.032220.7393@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Kok Yong Tan) writes...
>Well, there appears to be 2 minor problems with it:
> 
>1.  The Suitcase II option-key combination which displays the list of fonts in
>their respective font styles no longer works.
> 
>2.   It causes Super 3D to store any new preference files at the same level as
>the system folder instead of the same level as the Super 3D application.  This
>causes Super 3D to NOT recognize new preferences unless the preference files
>are physically moved down again.  Just a pain in the ass, really.

On my system, it crashes Resedit 1.2.

Damian
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meuchen@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Eric Menchen) (07/25/90)

In article <1990Jul24.032220.7393@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Kok Yong Tan) writes:
>Well, there appears to be 2 minor problems with it:
>
>1.  The Suitcase II option-key combination which displays the list of fonts in
>their respective font styles no longer works.

I've had no problem with this. Pressing the shift key (is it-I don't
use this option much) before choosing "font" disables Reunion. I found
pressing shift and the option-key combination for Suitcase II worked
fine. All the faces then rendered (with ATM too!).

>2.   It causes Super 3D to store any new preference files at the same level as
>the system folder instead of the same level as the Super 3D application.  This
>causes Super 3D to NOT recognize new preferences unless the preference files
>are physically moved down again.  Just a pain in the ass, really.

Don't know about this one.

Paul Eric Menchen
meuchen@grad1.cis.upenn.edu

herbw@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Herb Weiner) (08/03/90)

The default Adobe Type Reunion menu has problems with some fonts.
The workaround is to hold down the shift key to get the standard
font menu.  The specific problems I have discovered are:

1. The Chicago Symbols font does not appear, either by itself or
   as a submenu of Chicago.  (Chicago Symbols is a PostScript
   type 3 font, I believe from CE Software, which includes some
   of the special symbols (like the command key symbol) from the
   Chicago font.)

2. The New Baskerville Fractions font, a modified font I created
   using Parafont, does not appear in the menu.

I reported these problems to Adobe Technical Support on July 6.
The Technical Support representative promised to call me back,
but he never did.

Herb Weiner (herbw@midas.WR.TEK.COM)