picard@milton.u.washington.edu (Mary Stumpel) (03/29/91)
Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is the Adobe Type Manager? I know
that it's some kind of program that "smoothes out" typefaces on the Mac,
but I don't know:
1.whether it works on ALL word processors/DTP's
2.what fonts it supports/provides,
3.and whether it enhances printing on an imagewriter or laserwriter.
All help on this matter will be appreciated.
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ddaniel@lindy.stanford.edu (D. Daniel Sternbergh) writes: >>Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is the Adobe Type Manager? >Obsolete with System 7.0 and TrueType technology. I'm not sure I agree. I'm using both on my 7.0 system, and probably will for the indefinite future. For ATM to REALLY be obsolete requires more than just TrueType. It requires a couple of other things -- TrueType faces of the types I want (many of which are coming, but not here) that are as good as the Adobe faces I already depend on, and the ability to convert Type 1 and Type 3 fonts to TrueType (which is also coming) faces of the same quality. It doesn't particularly make sense to convert something to TrueType if the quality goes down in the conversion, so we'll have to see how people like Altsys do this. I expect I'll continue to use ATM for Type 1 fonts and TrueType for Truetype fonts -- and buy whatever type font works best for what I'm doin. I don't see that either really does much to the other. >>1.whether it works on ALL word processors/DTP's >Only the ones which display on the screen. Right. Or prints to a dot-matrix printer. >>2.what fonts it supports/provides, >These you gotta buy from Adobe. Wrong. Any type 1 font. >>3.and whether it enhances printing on an imagewriter or laserwriter. >Yes, and no. In that order. One outta three's not bad. -- Chuq Von Rospach >=< chuq@apple.com >=< GEnie: CHUQ >=< AppleLink: CHUQ SFWA Nebula Awards Reports Editor =+= Editor, OtherRealms Book Reviewer, Amazing Stories ---@--- #include <standard/disclaimer.h> Recommended reading: BONE DANCE by Emma Bull; BLIND JUSTICE by S.N. Lewitt; SCIENCE FICTION IN THE REAL WORLD by Norman Spinrad
ddaniel@lindy.stanford.edu (D. Daniel Sternbergh) (03/30/91)
In article <50954@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach, net.god {retired}) writes: >ddaniel@lindy.stanford.edu (D. Daniel Sternbergh) writes: >>>Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is the Adobe Type Manager? >>Obsolete with System 7.0 and TrueType technology. > >I'm not sure I agree. Fair enough. Retracted. >>>1.whether it works on ALL word processors/DTP's >>Only the ones which display on the screen. > >Right. Or prints to a dot-matrix printer. I would be interested to see a word processor which prints to a dot-matrix printer, but which doesn't display on the screen. >>>2.what fonts it supports/provides, >>These you gotta buy from Adobe. > >Wrong. Any type 1 font. Yup, I meant to suggest Adobe as a representative, not an exclusive, source. This didn't come out. My apologies. > >>>3.and whether it enhances printing on an imagewriter or laserwriter. >>Yes, and no. In that order. >One outta three's not bad. Fair enough, but you should elaborate to mention that I'm forgetting bitmapped characters sent to the LaserWriter. Of course, I would suggest that one avoid sending bitmapped characters to the LaserWriter when at all possible. Far better to go out and get the Adobe (or other vendor) font. Or did you have something else in mind? Contrite, Daniel