Re: Embarrassingly basic font question

[David Knopf <david -at- KNOPF -dot- COM>]

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.


>      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.

-- David Knopf

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