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Adobe Type Manager (R) version 2.5 Release Notes Windows version October 28, 1992 Adobe Type Manager is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated registered in certain countries. Copyrights 1983-1992 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Patents Pending This document supplements the Adobe Type Manager User Guide. Topics include: 1. Disk Contents 2. Installation Requirements 3. What's New in Version 2.5 4. ATM.INI 5. ATM Control Panel 6. PostScript Soft Fonts Listed in ATM Control Panel 7. Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts Option 8. Print ATM Fonts as Graphics 9. Install as Autodownload fonts for the PostScript driver 10. ATM and Printing 11. Printer and Video Drivers 12. Installing Fonts from the Adobe PlusPack and Adobe PostScript and Type Cartridges 13. Installing ATM in the IBM OS/2 Windows Compatibility Box 14. Application Notes - Adobe Illustrator 4.0 - Corel Draw - Designer 3.1 and Charisma 2.1 - FaceLift - Harvard Draw 1.0 - Harvard Graphics 1.0 for Windows - Micrografx PostScript Driver - Norton Desktop for Windows 1.0 - Quattro Pro for Windows 1.0 - TypeAlign 2.0 - Various Applications with Draft Mode Printing Feature - Various Font Management Utilities - Virus Protection Software - Word for Windows 2.0 and 2.0a - WordPerfect for Windows 5.1 15. Novell Netware Considerations 16. ATM and IBM 4029 Series Printers 17. Troubleshooting 18. Acknowledgments A. ATM.INI parameters 1. Disk Contents The following files are found on your ATM disk(s): ATM16.DLL Program file for Windows Standard mode ATM32.DLL Program file for Windows 386 Enhanced mode ATMSYS.DRV ATM System driver ATMCNTRL.EXE ATM Control Panel INSTALL.EXE ATM Installer INSTALL.CNF ATM installation configuration file PROGDISK (FONTDISK) Disk ID file README.TXT This README file ATM.CNF Configuration file (might not be present on upgrade disks) FONTINST.TXT Font installation instructions for Adobe Font Foundry, LaserTools PrimeType, and the IBM OS/2 Windows Compatibility Box (present on special ATM upgrade disk) Your disk(s) might also contain a PSFONTS directory and a PCLFONTS directory. The PSFONTS directory contains PostScript Font Outline (PFB) files and Printer Font Metrics (PFM) files. The PCLFONTS directory contains PCL bitmapped font files, which have filename extensions of either SFP or SFL. The PCLFONTS directory also contains Printer Font Metrics (PFM) files. 2. Installation Requirements To install ATM, you need a c:\ drive and sufficient disk space for the ATM software and fonts. The amount of disk space you need depends on the number of fonts included with your ATM package. The standard retail ATM package requires about 1.2 megabytes of free disk space. The default directory for the PostScript fonts is c:\psfonts. You can, however, install the font files in any directory on any drive. 3. What's New in Version 2.5 Version 2.5 of ATM introduces three new features: * ATM now uses soft fonts that are created on-the-fly by certain Windows 3.1 printer drivers; this feature speeds printing for PCL printers and other printers with drivers that support soft font creation * ATM now adds and removes fonts without requiring that you restart Windows * When you install fonts, ATM lets you specify whether or not the fonts are automatically downloaded to PostScript printers when you print The following paragraphs briefly describe these new features. * When running with Windows 3.1, ATM 2.5 prints soft fonts for printers whose drivers support on-the-fly soft font creation. These printers include the HP LaserJet family of printers and IBM Lexmark printers. This feature does not work with all printers that support downloaded printer soft fonts. The printer's Windows 3.1 printer driver must also support on-the-fly soft font creation for this feature to work. To determine whether a Windows 3.1 printer driver supports on-the-fly soft font creation, check the Printer Setup Options dialog box in the Windows Printer Control Panel. If you do not see a "Print TrueType as Graphics" option, the driver most likely cannot create printer soft fonts on-the-fly. * ATM 2.5 now adds and removes fonts without requiring that you restart Windows. When you use ATM to add and remove fonts while other applications are running, however, the ATM font changes are not always automatically available in the application font menus. Some applications, such as Windows Write and Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows, update their available font lists immediately, while others, such as Lotus AmiPro 3.0 and Aldus PageMaker 4.0, require that you re-select your printer before the ATM font changes appear in font menus. A few applications, such as Adobe Illustrator 4.0 and QuattroPro for Windows 1.0, build their font menus when they are started. You must restart these applications to see ATM font changes in their font menus. * When you add or remove fonts, the ATM 2.5 Control Panel automatically adds and removes soft font entries from the [PostScript, portname] sections in WIN.INI. (The [PostScript, portname] sections contain settings for PostScript printers.) If you change printer ports, however, Windows creates a new [PostScript, portname] section and does not transfer font entries from other sections. You must reinstall your fonts to add soft font entries to the new [PostScript, portname] section. See "Install As Autodownload Fonts for the PostScript Driver" later in this README files for details. A number of additional changes have been made in version 2.5: * ATM defers to resident and cartridge DeskJet fonts when you use the Windows 3.1 DeskJet driver that works with the Universal Printer driver. * ATM no longer disables application printing when you use the Windows 3.1 Generic Text driver (TTY.DRV). This driver supports only a single internal font. * Rotated text in graphics now displays correctly in Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows. * ATM text in Lotus Freelance now prints correctly when any Windows 3.1 PCL printer driver is set up to print at lower print resolutions. * ATM now prints correctly to PCL printers when used with Aldus IntelliDraw. * The ATM 2.5 Installer installs ATM correctly when MoreFonts is present on the system. 4. ATM.INI ATM's initialization file, ATM.INI, is created during installation. It contains a list of fonts installed in ATM and other ATM program-related settings. See Appendix A at the end of this README file for more technical information. 5. ATM Control Panel There is no longer a pre-defined limit to the number of fonts you can install with the ATM Control Panel. Windows does, however, limit initialization files (including the ATM.INI and the WIN.INI) to a size of 64K. If this limit is reached, Windows cannot open, read, or write properly to these INI files. For Windows 3.0 and 3.0a, Microsoft recommends keeping initialization files smaller than 32k in size. Following this recommendation, the maximum number of fonts that can be listed in ATM.INI for Windows 3.0 or 3.0a is around 450 fonts. For Windows 3.1, the only limit is the 64K maximum file size, which is large enough for about 900 fonts. Many applications limit the number of fonts that can be displayed in their font menus. For example, an application font menu might show only 200 fonts even though you have installed more than 200 ATM fonts. The more fonts you add with ATM, the longer it takes Windows to start. The exact time required for Windows to start depends on the type of processor you have and your system configuration. To reduce the time it takes Windows to start, make more memory available to Windows by, for example, removing Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) programs. You can also reduce the time it takes Windows to start by removing ATM fonts you use infrequently. 6. PostScript Soft Font Limits for Windows 3.0 and 3.0a For Windows 3.1, there is no longer a 150 font limit on the number of soft-font entries you can have for a PostScript printer. For Windows 3.0 and 3.0a, however, the maximum number of soft-font entries per PostScript printer WIN.INI entry is approximately 150. The exact number depends on your particular system configuration. If you receive spurious printer-related error messages when starting Windows or switching to a PostScript printer, you might have too many soft font entries in the printer's WIN.INI entry. To correct the problem, try using the ATM Control Panel to remove soft fonts you don't normally use. If you manually remove soft-font entries from the PostScript printer section of the WIN.INI file, remember to adjust the line "softfonts=nn" to show the new total number of soft-font entries. The ATM Control Panel automatically renumbers soft- font entries in WIN.INI when you remove fonts. ATM cannot, however, correct misnumbered font entries. The Microsoft Windows 3.1 PostScript driver lets you use a synthesized italic style for a PostScript font even if the outline font (PFB) file for the italic font is not present on this system. Windows, however, cannot provide the PostScript driver with the correct font metrics for a synthesized italic face, so the font is displayed with expanded character spacing. Also, PostScript printers print the Roman (non-italic) face for the synthesized italic face when you print. 7. Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts When you select the Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts option, ATM lets PCL printer drivers use pre-built or printer-resident fonts to print documents. When you clear the Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts check box, ATM creates characters for PCL printer drivers to print even when pre-built or printer-resident fonts are available. Although ATM does not require that you restart Windows after you change the Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts option, you might have to quit and restart applications for this option to take effect. If you are using Windows 3.1 with printer drivers that allow soft fonts to be created on-the-fly (such as the PCL drivers), you might want to turn this option off to speed printing. It is more efficient for a printer driver to create a soft font on- the-fly than to download a pre-built font. You can see if you have any pre-built fonts installed for your PCL printer by checking the printer driver's Fonts dialog box. To display the driver's Fonts dialog box, choose Fonts in the driver's Printer Setup dialog box. When Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts option is selected, you might find the characters of a printer-resident or soft font that you place beneath a graphic image print on top of the image. To see an example of this problem, open an application that lets you draw images over text, select the Courier font, type some text, and draw a gray box on top of the text. The font is covered by the gray box on the screen. Now print with the Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts option selected to see if your printer prints the text on top of the gray box. If the text prints on top of the box, you will also have this problem when you turn ATM off. To correct this problem, clear the Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts check box. If you are using a printer driver that creates soft fonts on- the-fly (such as the PCL printer drivers), you might have to select the "Print ATM fonts as graphics" option for graphic objects and text to print correctly. 8. Print ATM Fonts as Graphics For Windows 3.1 and later, ATM takes advantage of a new feature available with some printer drivers that lets ATM use the driver to create soft fonts on-the-fly. Creating soft fonts on-the-fly speeds printing. Printer drivers that create soft fonts on-the- fly include the drivers for the HP LaserJet family of printers and the driver for the IBM Lexmark printers. The Print ATM Fonts as Graphics option controls whether or not ATM uses the soft font creation feature when it is available. By default, the Print ATM Fonts as Graphics option is cleared and ATM uses the soft font creation feature. When you select the Print ATM Fonts as Graphics option, however, ATM prints characters as graphics. Selecting the Print ATM Fonts as Graphics option can solve some printing problems, such as when the text you place beneath a graphic image prints on top of the graphic. When you change the Print ATM Fonts as Graphics option while other applications are running, the change usually takes effect immediately. In a few applications, such as Word for Windows 2.0 for example, you must re-select your printer before the ATM print mode change takes effect. If you set up your printer driver to print TrueType fonts as graphics, ATM prints fonts as graphics regardless of how the Print ATM Fonts as Graphics option is set. Some applications, such as CorelDraw 3.0, always print text as graphics. 9. Install As Autodownload Fonts for the PostScript Driver The Microsoft PostScript printer driver uses the [PostScript, portname] section in the WIN.INI file to find the PostScript soft fonts installed on the system. As an example, the following [PostScript, portname] section shows two soft fonts installed for a PostScript printer connected to the parallel port LPT1. [PostScript, LPT1] softfonts=2 softfont1=c:\psfonts\pfm\tkrg______.pfm;c:\psfonts\tkrg____.pfb softfont2=c:\psfonts\pfm\tkb_______.pfm;c:\psfonts\tkb_____.pfb Each of these soft font entries is made up of two parts: * The first part is the path and file name of the soft font's printer font metrics (PFM) file * The second part is the path and file name of the soft font's outline (PFB) file The PFM file part is necessary for all PostScript fonts whose character metrics are not hard-coded in the PostScript driver. The PFB file part is needed only when you want the driver to download the font outline with every print job. To set up the Microsoft PostScript driver to automatically download a font at print time, install the font with the "Install as autodownload fonts for the PostScript driver" option selected. When this option is selected, ATM adds both the PFM and PFB parts of the soft font entry. You must also select the "Install as autodownload fonts for the PostScript driver" option if you are installing the standard Base35 fonts for a printer that does not contain them. The Base35 fonts (available with the Adobe PlusPack and the PostScript Type Cartridge) are: AvantGarde, Bookman, Courier, Helvetica, Helvetica Narrow, NewCenturySchoolbook, Palatino, Symbol, Times, ZapfChancery, and ZapfDingbats. Most, but not all, newer PostScript printers contain the Base35 fonts. If you are adding fonts to ATM that are already resident in the printer, you can uncheck this option to instruct the printer driver not to send the font outline files to the printer at print time. With the "Install as autodownload fonts for the PostScript driver" option unchecked, ATM adds only the PFM part of the soft-font entries in WIN.INI. You should also uncheck this option for fonts you plan to manually download to the printer. How ATM 2.5 Adds Base35 Fonts When the "Install as autodownload fonts for the PostScript driver" option is unchecked, ATM does not add soft font entries to WIN.INI for the Base35 soft fonts. The soft font entries for these fonts are not needed because the font metrics for these fonts are hard-coded in the driver. If soft font entries for the Base35 fonts are present in WIN.INI, however, they are ignored by the PostScript driver at print time if the Base35 fonts are resident in the printer. In other words, the PostScript driver does not download the outlines of these fonts if they are already present on the printer. The only exception to this rule is for the Bookman font. If a Bookman PFB entry is present in the WIN.INI, the driver downloads the outline file at print time. To correct this problem and to force the driver to use the Bookman font resident in the printer, re-add the four faces of Bookman with the "Install as autodownload fonts for the PostScript driver" option unchecked 10. ATM and Printing ATM uses PostScript outline fonts to produce a smooth graphic display of your fonts on-screen. The fonts available for use depend on the printer you have selected in your application. The fonts available for non-PostScript printers are the printer- resident fonts, the Windows internal bitmapped fonts, the TrueType fonts installed on the system (for Windows 3.1), and the PostScript fonts listed in the ATM Control Panel. For PostScript printers, the fonts available are the printer- resident fonts, the TrueType fonts installed on the system (for Windows 3.1), and the PostScript soft-font entries listed in the printer's [PostScript, portname] section in the WIN.INI file. When you print to a PostScript printer, ATM does not have to be active because it does not have to rasterize any fonts. Windows and the PostScript driver download outline fonts to your PostScript printer. Print Resolution For the highest print quality, Adobe recommends you set up your printer to print at the highest resolution available. Certain PCL printer drivers do not properly set the print resolution. They might appear to be set at 300 dpi resolution in the Windows Printer Control Panel even though they are set to a lower resolution. Some applications fail to print correctly when your PCL printer resolution is not set to 300 dpi. Excel 3.0a, for example, prints blank cells instead of ATM fonts when printing ATM fonts as graphics and your PCL printer is not set to 300 dpi. If you suspect your PCL printer driver is not set to 300 dpi, set the resolution to 75 dpi, save this option, and then set the resolution back to 300 dpi. When your printer resolution is set to 300 dpi, the line "prtresfac=0" appears in the PCL printer entry in the WIN.INI file. Colored Text ATM generates a graphic image of colored text regardless of the ATM print mode (soft font or graphics) set with the Print ATM Fonts as Graphics option. To force ATM to generate black or white soft fonts for monochrome printers and color soft fonts for printers such as the HP PaintJet 300xl, add the following [Colors] section to your ATM.INI file. [Colors] PrintColorGraphics=Off See Appendix A for a description of this setting. Be very careful when you change ATM.INI. If you make a mistake, you can make it impossible for ATM to start. 11. Printer and Video Drivers For the highest font rasterization quality, Adobe recommends you use the latest Windows printer and video drivers. If you are using the Microsoft Windows 3.1 DeskJet driver version 1.2, make sure to use the Universal Printer driver dated 06/29/92. 12. Installing Fonts from the Adobe PlusPack and Adobe PostScript and Type Cartridges Installing fonts from the Adobe PlusPack or for the Adobe PostScript or Adobe Type Cartridge requires that you insert the different font disks many times. To avoid having to repeatedly insert font disks, follow these steps: 1. Create a temporary directory on your hard disk. 2. Copy all the files from all the font disks to the temporary directory. 3. Start the ATM Control Panel and choose Add. The Add ATM Fonts dialog box appears. 4. Using the Directories list box, open the temporary directory. The names of all the fonts appear in the Available Fonts list. 5. Select the fonts you want to add and either accept the default target directories or enter the names of the PostScript font directories you are using. 6. Choose Add. The fonts are added and you are returned to the ATM Control Panel. 7. Choose OK to close the ATM Control Panel. 8. Delete all the files in the temporary directory; then delete the temporary directory. 13. Installing ATM in the IBM OS/2 Windows Compatibility Box Before installing ATM version 2.5 over an existing version of ATM in the IBM OS/2 Windows Compatibility box, you must first edit the Boot section of your Windows SYSTEM.INI file. Replace the two lines SYSTEM.DRV=ATMSYS.DRV ATM.SYSTEM.DRV=SYSTEM.DRV with this line SYSTEM.DRV=SYSTEM.DRV After changing the SYSTEM.INI file, start Windows and install ATM as instructed in the manual. Be very careful changing the SYSTEM.INI file. If you make a make a mistake, you can make it impossible for Windows to start. 14. Application Notes When you add or remove a font while an application is active, the application font menus are not always updated automatically. If you add or remove a font while one of the following applications is active, AmiPro 3.0, Freehand 3.0, Freelance 1.0, PageMaker 4.0, Ventura Publisher for Windows, and WordPerfect 5.1.for Windows you must re-select your printer to update the application's font menu. Adobe Illustrator 4.0 If you have Illustrator 4.0 and add or remove a font, you must restart Windows for font changes to take effect in Illustrator. If you are using the latest version of the Adobe Enumerator, you need only restart Illustrator to see ATM font changes. Make sure Illustrator is closed, however, before using ATM to add or remove fonts. The two enumerator files PSENUM.DLL and RUN_ENUM.EXE, which Illustrator uses to register ATM font changes, are located in the Windows system directory. If your enumerator files are dated 7/17/92 or earlier, you need to obtain the most recent versions of these files. You can receive the updates to these files free of charge by contacting Adobe Customer Support at (415) 961-4992. You can also download these files from the Adobe CompuServe forum. If you are using Enumerator files dated 7/17/92 or earlier, you have to restart Windows for ATM font changes to take effect. CorelDraw! CorelDraw! 3.0 now supports ATM fonts. Adobe strongly recommends that you obtain the maintenance release version 3.0b. You must restart CorelDraw! for ATM font changes to take effect. CorelDraw! version 2.0 does not support ATM fonts. Designer 3.1 and Charisma 2.1 The lines used for underlines and strikeouts may appear broken when using an ATM font. This is due the way these Micrografx products handle character placement. If you rotate text at a 90 degree angle and then stretch it, you might find that the font will not be properly resized. To avoid this problem, first resize the font and then rotate it. Rotating stretched text at a 180 degree angle might cause the last letters in the text string to overlap. To correct this problem, first rotate the text by 180 degrees and then stretch it. Rotated text at certain angles will sometimes print with expanded character spacing on non-PostScript printers. To correct this problem, try using the Print View option and selecting the entire page. FaceLift for Windows FaceLift for Windows modifies the printer entries in the WIN.INI. If FaceLift is installed, the ATM Installer and Control Panel do not recognize the installed PostScript printers and cannot add PostScript soft-font entries for these printers. Before adding fonts for PostScript printers, you must first temporarily disable the "Print with FaceLift" option in FaceLift Control Panel. After the fonts have been installed, you can re- enable "Print with FaceLift" option. Harvard Draw 1.01 Harvard Draw 1.01 support ATM fonts. You must restart the application for ATM font changes to take effect. Harvard Graphics 1.01 for Windows Harvard Graphics cannot rotate ATM fonts. Harvard Graphics uses its own internal scalable fonts for all rotated text. If you are using Harvard Graphics and ATM with a high-resolution video driver, you must obtain the maintenance upgrade version 1.021 or higher. If you make ATM font changes while Harvard Draw is running, you must select another printer driver and switch back to the original driver for the ATM font changes to take effect. Micrografx PostScript Driver The Micrografx PostScript driver has a non-standard printer section structure in the WIN.INI. PostScript soft fonts cannot be installed to this driver using the ATM Installer and Control Panel. You can, however, install your fonts through the Micrografx Printer Setup menu. See your Micrografx manual for instructions. Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0 Due to the different structure of Norton Desktop's application groups, the ATM icon might not be properly installed into the Main group when you are running Norton as your desktop shell. If this occurs, you must manually add the ATM Control Panel icon. The ATM Installer will, however, copy all of the necessary files to your system and will configure Windows to run ATM. See the Norton Desktop manual for instructions on how to install a new icon in a group. Quattro Pro for Windows 1.0 You must restart this application for ATM font changes to take effect. PageMaker 4.0 For best results with ATM, set the "Vector text above" and "Stretch text above" limits in the Preferences dialog box to 10000 pixels each. If you make ATM font changes while PageMaker is running, you must re-select your printer for the ATM font changes to take effect. TypeAlign 2.0 If you receive the error message "Application requested abnormal termination" after installing TypeAlign under Windows 3.1, you must manually remove the entry TALGNDLL.EXE from the load line of the WIN.INI file. TALGNDLL.EXE is not compatible with Windows 3.1. The Load= line in the WIN.INI file is in the [windows] section. Be very careful when you change WIN.INI. If you make a mistake, Windows will not work correctly. TypeAlign 2.1 corrects this problem. Ventura Publisher Windows Edition Adobe recommends using version 4.1. For upgrade information, please contact Ventura at (800) 822-8221. The fonts Helvetica and Times do not display correctly in Reduced View. If you make ATM font changes while Ventura Publisher is running, you must re-select your printer for the ATM font changes to take effect. Word for Windows 2.0a Double underlines may print as one thick underline at point sizes larger than 18 points. This is due to the method Word for Windows uses to perform double underlining. Smart quotes (characters Alt+0147 and Alt+0148) might print as double single quotes with some printer drivers. The generic bullet character (Alt+0149) might print as a lowercase o. Various Applications with Draft Mode Printing Feature Some applications which support draft mode printing do not print graphics when they print in draft mode. When ATM is set up to print ATM fonts as graphics, text might not print correctly in draft mode. To correct this problem, clear the Print ATM Fonts as Graphics option in the ATM Control Panel. Various Font Management Utilities Some font management utilities such as FontMinder 1.0 and the font conversion utility AllType automatically update the ATM.INI file. You must restart Windows for font changes in the ATM.INI file introduced by these utilities to take effect. Virus Protection Software Some virus protection software packages do not allow the ATM Installer to replace previous versions of ATM software. If you have this problem, first scan your hard drive for viruses. Then temporarily disable your virus protection software while you install ATM. Remember to re-enable your virus protection software and re-scan your hard disk after installing ATM. WordPerfect for Windows 5.1 ATM requires the standard Windows printer drivers in order to print ATM text. You cannot print ATM fonts with the WordPerfect printer drivers, unless you also use a third-party type utility such as PrimeType from LaserTools. WordPerfect for Windows uses its own screen fonts for preview, so ATM is not active in WordPerfect preview mode Some special characters in the ANSI character set (with values higher than 128) do not print as displayed. See your Windows documentation for the ANSI character set. 15. Novell Netware Considerations Although ATM is not a network application, you can print to network printers using ATM. However, you must configure the File Contents section in your print job definition to specify Byte stream instead of Text. The Byte stream option is required because ATM sends raster graphics to non-PostScript printers. To add fonts from a network drive, you must first load a SHELL.CFG file containing the line "show dots = on". Use IPX.COM to load the SHELL.CFG file. There is also a 34-character limit for the PostScript target directories for the PFB and PFM files. If your target directory name exceeds this limit, use the MAP ROOT command (instead of the usual map command) to map the directory to a simulated root directory. 16. ATM and IBM 4029 Series Printers To use ATM with one of the IBM 4029 series printers, you must install version 3.01 or later of the 4029 printer driver and version 1.65 or later of the Generic printer driver. These versions are included with Windows 3.1. If you are using Windows 3.0, contact your printer dealer or manufacturer for the latest drivers. 17. Troubleshooting Justified Text Exceeds Right Margin On Screen Justified text sometimes extends beyond the right margin on screen, but prints correctly. This happens particularly at small point sizes. Two situations can cause this problem: * Windows uses a screen font for a font of a different size. Turning off the Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts option in the ATM Control Panel corrects this problem. * The problem is caused by round-off errors occurring when an application calculates the total width of a line of text. This problem cannot be corrected. Documents Containing the Arial MT and TimesNewRomanPS Fonts Print Slowly If, after upgrading to Windows 3.1, you find that documents containing the fonts Arial MT and TimesNewRomanPS print more slowly on a PostScript printer, you can take the following steps to improve printing speed. These fonts are often used as substitutes for the font Helvetica and Times when included when ATM is bundled with another product. To make documents containing Arial MT and TimesNewRomanPS print faster, add the following lines to both the [Aliases] section and [Synonyms] section of your ATM.INI file. Helvetica=Arial MT Times=TimesNewRomanPS The following two lines Helv=Arial MT Tms Rmn=TimesNewRomanPS should already be present in both ATM.INI sections. Helvetica and Times display upside-down. If the fonts Helvetica and Times display upside-down, check the ATM Control Panel to see if all of these fonts are installed: * Helvetica * Times * Arial MT * TimesNewRomanPS. If you have all these fonts, you must manually edit the ATM.INI file and replace the following four lines in the [Aliases] and [Synonyms] sections Helv=Arial MT Helvetica=Arial MT Tms Rmn=TimesNewRomanPS Times=TimesNewRomanPS with these two lines Helv=Helvetica Tms Rmn=Times. 18. Acknowledgments The ATM team would like to acknowledge the following people who have contributed to the design and testing of ATM version 2.5: Jeronimo Alves, Geoff Arnold, David Glassman, Jim Gutierrez, Curtis Kunz, Jorge Lopez, Sasha Mobley, Sheila Rolfer, Nora Sandoval, Scott Seltz, Greg Walker, Nelson Whitney, and Tokuro Yamashiro. Appendix A. ATM.INI Parameters The following section contains technical information on ATM version 2.5's initialization file. This file is divided up into six sections: Fonts, Setup, Settings, Mono, Aliases, and Synonyms. [Fonts] This section contains a list of all of the fonts installed with ATM and the locations of the PostScript PFM and PFB files for each font. The fonts listed here are available to all non-PostScript printers for screen display and printing. The fonts available to PostScript printers are based on the PostScript soft-font entries in the specific printer section of the WIN.INI file and the ROM-based fonts in the printer. If a font is listed in both WIN.INI and ATM.INI, ATM will rasterize the font to the screen. The printing of fonts to PostScript devices is solely the responsibility of the PostScript driver and Windows. ATM does not have to be active when printing to PostScript devices. Although a particular application will allow you to bold or italicize a certain font, your PostScript printer will not be able to render the bold or italic font unless an outline for the bold or italic font is available. On non-PostScript printers, however, ATM will synthesize a bold, italic or bold italic version of a font based on the roman outline if the outline of the desired font style is not present. When the ATM 2.5 Installer creates the [Fonts] section of the ATM.INI, it adds all the PostScript fonts found in the installation disk as well as any PostScript fonts listed as soft-font entries for PostScript printers in the WIN.INI file. If you are upgrading from a previous version of ATM, the Installer also adds all the fonts listed in the current ATM.INI file. [Setup] PFM_Dir Default PFM directory for the ATM Control Panel when adding PostScript fonts. PFB_Dir Default PFB directory for the ATM Control Panel when adding PostScript fonts. [Settings] FontCache=96 Specifies the size of the font cache in kilobytes. This option is configurable through the ATM Control Panel. The default is 96k. Adobe recommends that this value not be set to more than 64k for each megabyte of physical memory. ATM=On Determines whether or not ATM is loaded at Windows startup time. BitmapFonts=On This switch is set with the Use Pre-Built or Resident Fonts check box in the ATM Control Panel. When this switch is on, ATM defers to screen fonts, resident printer fonts, and printer soft fonts rather than rasterizing the font itself if the bitmap of the font requested in available. If you change this switch, you do not have to restart Windows for the change to take effect. You might, however, have to restart applications for the setting to take effect. The default setting is On. SynonymPSBegin=9 This value specifies the point size at which ATM starts using bitmap deferral for font pairs listed in both the Aliases and Synonyms sections. The default is 9. Adobe recommends that you do not change this setting. QLCDir Indicates the path of the ATM QuickLoad file, ATMFONTS.QLC. ATMFONTS.QLC contains a list of installed fonts and font metrics, which reduces Windows startup time. You can force ATM to rebuild this file by deleting the file with the MS-DOS DEL command and restarting Windows. Version=2.5 This value enables the ATM Installer to determine the version of ATM when ATM is not active; otherwise, the Installer determines the version of ATM from the ATM DLL. DownloadFonts=On This switch instructs ATM to print text as soft fonts for Windows 3.1 printer drivers that support this feature. [Mono] Courier=Yes This section contains a list of monospaced LetterGothic=Yes fonts. PrestigeElite=Yes Orator=Yes [Aliases] This section tells ATM to substitute the font on the right of the equal sign for the font on the left of the equal sign when an application requests the font on the left of the equal sign. The ATM Installer defines aliases for the fonts Helv, Tms Rmn, Courier, Roman, and Modern. When the Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts option is turned on, ATM uses the resident bitmapped fonts for point sizes for which bitmaps exist. When The Use Pre-built or Resident option is turned off, ATM uses the PostScript outline font to rasterize all sizes of the aliased bitmapped font. Helv=Helvetica The fonts left of the equals sign are Tms Rmn=Times Windows bitmapped fonts. By using Courier=Courier PostScript outline fonts, ATM can rasterize a smooth font when these fonts are requested at sizes not available in bitmapped form. Roman=Times These settings enable ATM to use Modern=Helvetica PostScript outlines instead of the standard Windows vector fonts. Courier=Courier This setting is needed if an application requests the smallest available fixed-pitch font. If this line is not present, ATM provides someapplications with a 1-point Courier font. Helv=Arial MT If you have received ATM bundled with Helvetica=Arial MT another application, you might have Tms Rmn=TimesNewRomanPS the fonts Arial MT and TimesNewRomanPS Times=TimesNewRomanPS instead the standard fonts Helvetica and Times. You should have these lines present in both the Aliases and Synonyms sections. These settings tell ATM to use internal printer fonts when printing Arial MT and TimesNewRomanPS to a PostScript printer. This reduces the time required to print documents and improves the quality of bold and italic text styles. If you have all four faces (Helvetica, Times, Arial MT and TimesNewRomanPS), you should use the font pairs Helv=Helvetica and Tms Rmn=Times in these sections. [Synonyms] Helv=Helvetica Unlike the font pairs in the Aliases Tms Rmn=Times section, the font pairs in the Courier=Courier Synonyms are interchangeable. This means thatwhen the font Helv is requested at apoint size not available in bitmapped form, the font Helvetica will be used. In Windows 3.0 & 3.0a, when the font Helvetica is requested and a bitmapped Helv font of the exact size is available, ATM will use the Helv bitmap to display the font on the screen. In Windows 3.1, the screen fonts Helv and Tms Rmn have been replaced by MS Sans Serif and MS Serif, so screen ATM.INI to override internal ATM defaults. The switch is global for all applications. While enabling this switch might be useful for a special purpose in a particular application, it can also produce unexpected results in other applications. PrintColorGraphics=Off This switch instructs ATM to print colored text as soft fonts under Windows 3.1 rather than as dithered graphics. The printer driver must support soft font creation for this switch to work. For most printer drivers, the resulting soft fonts print as black or white fonts.