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Subject:Re: Embarrassingly basic font question From:Chris Tonjes <ctonjes -at- MINDSPRING -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 6 Nov 1997 17:55:37 -0500
>Virginia Day wrote:
>>
>> Before you see Adobe Type Manager as the solution to your problems,
be
>> aware that it can destroy your on-screen display. After installing
>> PageMaker (on Win95) the text in cc:Mail and Word started to
>> disappear. After I stopped ATM, my display was fine. I never did
find
>> out what the underlying technical problem was, but I know to keep
ATM
>> off so I can see what I write.
>
>Before you act too quickly on the advice of someone who found a problem
>doesn't know what caused it, rest assured that ATM works just fine and
>has not destroyed the display of any of the many, many people I know who
>use it. I am personally running it on four different systems with never
>a problem.
ATM causes no problems. What this writer was probably experiencing was a
vidoe card problem, caused by something other than ATM. ATM FIXES display
problems; it does not cause them.
>
>
>> Also, if you have postscript fonts, you need a postscript printer.
>> Upgrading an HP for postscript (including adding memory) costs about
>> $500 and takes a few weeks (to order parts). You might have a
>> PS-enabled printer, but if you don't, ....
>
>This is not true. One of the features of ATM is that enables you to
>print PostScript fonts on PCL printers. Printing is a bit slower than it
>is with a PostScript printer, but you certainly do not "need" a
>PostScript printer in order to use PostScript fonts.
ATM lets you print any font on a pcl printer. That's why it was created. If
you have framemaker or acrobat, I believe ATm is included. Otherwise it's
well worth 99
>
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