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- Using Adobe Type Manager with Aldus PageMaker
-
- I've been seeing the same questions and problems repeated
- over and over on various Compuserve forums, so I've put
- together a Q&A sheet for ATM and Pagemaker.
-
- First off, ATM only works with Type 1 PostScript fonts.
- These font files usually have a PFB (Printer Font Binary)
- extension. ATM does not work with Type 3 PostScript fonts
- (which usually have a PFA extension). Installing an
- incompatible font can wreak havoc on your work.
- Unfortunately, the ATM font installation does not check to
- see if a font is compatible or not.
-
- Now for the questions:
-
- Q. I've installed Adobe Type1 fonts through the ATM
- Control Panel. They show up fine on the screen and are
- listed in PageMaker's typeface list, but I only get
- Courier from the printer. What's wrong?
-
- A. ATM's Control Panel installs the font into the ATM.INI
- and the WIN.INI files. However, it enters the font
- information in the WIN.INI as a RESIDENT FONT (that is, a
- font in ROM, already downloaded to the printer's RAM, or
- installed on the printer's hard drive). You will need to
- make a backup of your WIN.INI file, and then edit the
- WIN.INI file to mark the font as NON-RESIDENT so that
- Windows will download the font to the printer when it is
- needed.
-
- After making a backup of the WIN.INI file, open the file
- up for editing in an ASCII editor (Notepad or Sysedit will
- work fine). Look for a section that is headed:
-
- [PostScript,LPT1]
-
- (Note: the printer port might be different, i.e. COM2,
- LPT2, COM1, FILE)
-
- Under that heading look for lines like these:
-
- softfont1=c:\psfonts\pfm\fontname.PFM
- softfont2=c:\psfonts\pfm\fontnam2.PFM
- etc.
-
- These are the lines tell Windows what fonts are available,
- and where to find the spacing information for them. As
- they appear, they make Windows assume that the fonts are
- resident in the printer. You need to add the path to the
- PFB files to the above lines to make Windows download the
- fonts:
-
-
- softfont1=c:\psfonts\pfm\fontname.PFM,c:\psfonts\fontname.
- PFB
- softfont2=c:\psfonts\pfm\fontnam2.PFM,c:\psfonts\fontnam2.
- PFB
- etc.
-
- Notice the comma and the path to the PFB file. The above
- assumes that the fonts are in the default directories for
- ATM. If you are using different directories you will need
- to substitute them for the C:\PSFONTS\PFM and the
- C:\PSFONTS directories.
-
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-
- Q. I've installed my PostScript fonts through ATM's
- Control Panel, but they do not appear in PageMaker's
- typeface list, and I don't even see the fonts listed in
- the WIN.INI file.
-
- A. Are you using one of the standard printer ports (LPT1,
- COM2, LPT1.OS2, etc.)? Or are you possibly printing to
- LPT1.PRN instead? ATM is aware of the standard printer
- ports in Windows, but is not aware of LPT1.PRN or
- LPT2.PRN. If it encounters the PRN ports it does not make
- any modification to the WIN.INI file.
-
- There are a couple of ways to fix this, neither of which
- is very pretty. You can use Windows' Control Panel,
- Printer Setup to change printer ports to a standard port
- and then re-install the fonts. Or, you can manually edit
- the win.ini file to enter the font information.
-
- If you choose to manually enter the information, please
- take a look at the FONTS.ZIP file in the Compuserve
- Desktop Publishing Forum (GO DTPFORUM) for information.
-
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-
- Q. I've installed my PostScript fonts through ATM's
- Control Panel. The fonts show up in PageMaker's list of
- typefaces, and they print fine. However, only small size
- screen fonts seem to appear in Pagemaker. If I use a large
- font, or I zoom in on the page I only see small figures.
-
- A. PageMaker assumes that you only have a limited
- selection of screen font sizes. You need to make a change
- to the Preferences settings in the Edit menu in Pagemaker.
-
- In order for the changes you make to become the default
- settings in Pagemaker, you need to close any document you
- may be working on so that you are at a blank gray screen.
- Then click on Edit and then click on Preferences. Change
- the values for "Stretch text above" and "Vector text
- above." I have them each set at 400 pixels. Then click on
- OK.
-
- This will set these values as the defaults for new
- documents. You will need to go back and change them for
- any old documents that you want to use with ATM.
-
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-
- Q. Are there any public domain or shareware PS Type1 fonts
- that will work with ATM and Pagemaker?
-
- A. Yes. There are a few examples in Library 9 of the
- DTPFORUM on Compuserve (check the file's description for
- mention of ATM compatibility). Examples are Saint Frances,
- Architect, Black Chancery, Postcrypt and Caligula.
-
-