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- Adobe Type Manager (R) version 2.02 Release Notes
- Windows version
- May 2, 1992
-
- Adobe Type Manager is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems
- Incorporated. 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. ATM.INI
- 4. ATM Control Panel
- 5. PostScript Soft Fonts Listed in ATM Control Panel
- 6. Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts Option
- 7. ATM and Printing
- 8. Printer and Video Drivers
- 9. Application Notes
- - Corel Draw
- - Designer 3.1 and Charisma 2.1
- - Harvard Draw 1.0
- - Harvard Graphics 1.0 for Windows
- - Micrografx PostScript Driver
- - Norton Desktop for Windows 1.0
- - PageMaker 4.0
- - PowerPoint 2.0
- - Ventura Publisher Windows Edition version 3.0
- - Various Applications with Draft Mode Printing Feature
- - Virus Protection Software
- - Word for Windows 1.1a, 2.0, and 2.0a
- - WordPerfect for Windows 5.1
- 10. Novell Netware Considerations
- 11. ATM and IBM 4029 Series Printers
- 12. Troubleshooting
- 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 file
- ATM.CNF Configuration file (might not be present
- on upgrade disks)
-
- 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 Metric (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 Metric (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
- megabyte of disk space.
-
-
-
- 3. 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. For more technical
- information, see Appendix A at the end of this file.
-
-
-
- 4. 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.
-
-
- Fonts Listed in the ATM Control Panel
-
- The more fonts you add with ATM, the longer it takes Windows
- to load. The exact time depends on the type of processor
- you have and your system configuration. If you feel that Windows
- is taking too long to load, you may want to free up more memory
- available to Windows and/or reduce the total number of fonts
- installed to a reasonable set of fonts you frequently use.
-
-
-
- 5. PostScript Soft Font Limits for Windows 3.0 and 3.0a
-
- When you use the ATM Control Panel to add PostScript soft fonts,
- ATM places entries in your WIN.INI file that tell Windows to
- automatically download the fonts to your printer whenever you
- print a document containing the fonts.
-
- 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. This limit stems from the Windows 3.0
- PostScript driver's inability to enumerate a large number of
- fonts. If you receive spurious printer-related error messages
- when starting Windows or switching to a PostScript printer, check
- the number of soft fonts you have installed in the PostScript
- printer section in the WIN.INI. You might have to manually
- remove these soft-font entries to correct the printing problem.
-
- If you 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.
- For example, if your PostScript printer section lists 150 soft
- fonts and you remove 25, the line should read "softfonts=125".
- Also, the left side of the soft-font entries should number the
- remaining soft fonts continuously. For 125 soft-fonts, the
- entries should begin with "softfont1=..." and continue without
- interruption through "softfont125=..."
-
-
-
- 6. Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts Option in the ATM Control
- Panel
-
- When you select the Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts check box,
- uses these fonts at print time instead of creating bitmapped
- fonts and sending them to your printer. Although ATM does not
- require restarting Windows when changing the Use Pre-built or
- Resident Fonts option, it may be necessary to quit and restart
- applications for this option to take effect.
-
- You may find that when this option is selected, resident fonts
- will not be masked by your printer if a graphic image is placed
- on top of the text. As an example, open an application that
- allows you to draw images over text, select the font Courier, and
- draw a gray box on top of it. The font will be covered by the
- gray box on the screen. But with the Use Pre-built or Resident
- Fonts option selected, your printer will print the text on top of
- the gray box. (This type of behavior also occurs when you turn
- ATM off.) When you clear the Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts
- check box, your text and graphic images will print as displayed
- on-screen.
-
-
-
- 7. 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.
-
- For non-PostScript printers, the fonts available are the internal
- printer fonts, the Windows internal bitmapped fonts, and the
- fonts listed in the ATM Control Panel. At print time, ATM
- generates a graphic image of your text based on the PostScript
- outlines, and sends this image to your printer. If you have PCL
- bitmapped fonts installed for your printer, the PCL driver will
- download these soft fonts if you have checked the Use Pre-built
- or Resident Fonts option in the ATM Control Panel.
-
- For PostScript printers, the fonts available are the fonts
- resident in the printer and the PostScript soft-font entries
- listed in the printer's section in the WIN.INI file. When you
- use the ATM Control Panel to add PostScript soft fonts, ATM adds
- soft-font entries in the WIN.INI file for the currently installed
- PostScript printers. However, when you add a new PostScript
- printer (or change printer ports), you may find that some of the
- soft fonts listed in the ATM Control Panel do not appear in your
- application font menus. This is because the PostScript soft-font
- entries in the WIN.INI file are missing for the new PostScript
- printer (or the printer attached to a new port). To correct this
- problem, simply use the ATM Control Panel to add the missing
- fonts again.
-
- When printing 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 your
- printer and printer driver to the highest print resolution.
- Certain PCL printer drivers do not properly set the print
- resolution. They show 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 if 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.
-
-
-
- 8. Printer and Video Drivers
-
- For the highest font rasterization quality, Adobe recommends you
- use the latest Windows printer and video drivers.
-
-
-
- 9. Application Notes
-
-
- Corel Draw Version 2.0 and Earlier
-
- These versions of Corel Draw do not work with ATM.
-
-
- 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
- may 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 may cause the last
- letters in the text string to overlap. In this case, 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. Try using the
- Print View option and selecting the entire page.
-
- Adobe is working with Micrografx to correct all these problems.
-
-
- Harvard Draw 1.0
-
- This version of Harvard Draw does not work with ATM.
-
-
- Harvard Graphics 1.0 for Windows
-
- Harvard Graphics cannot rotate ATM fonts. Harvard Graphics uses
- internal fonts for rotated text.
-
-
- Micrografx PostScript Driver
-
- The Micrografx PostScript driver has a unique 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 1.0
-
- Due to the different structure of Norton Desktop's application
- groups, the ATM icon will not be properly installed into the Main
- group when running Norton as your desktop shell. 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.
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- PowerPoint 2.0
-
- For best results at small point sizes on screen, use the Windows
- Fonts Control Panel to remove the "Small Fonts" font.
-
-
- Ventura Publisher Windows Edition v. 3.0
-
- To use ATM with Ventura 3.0, you must install the "Windows" patch
- disk. You can receive this disk by contacting Ventura at (800)
- 822-8221.
-
- The fonts Helvetica and Times will not display correctly in
- Reduced View.
-
- Reversed text does not print correctly to non-PostScript
- printers.
-
-
- Word for Windows 1.1a, 2.0, and 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.
-
- In version 1.1a, the typeface used in the ruler and in the status
- bar may not be Helvetica. Word for Windows 1.1a uses the first
- variable pitch sans-serif font available in the [Fonts] section
- of the ATM.INI file. To correct this problem, move Helvetica to
- the top of the [Fonts] section in your ATM.INI file. Upgrading
- to Word for Windows version 2.0 and later also corrects this
- problem.
-
-
- Various Applications with Draft Mode Printing Feature
-
- Some applications which support draft mode printing do not print
- graphics when they print in draft mode. Because ATM creates text
- as graphics, text might not print correctly in draft mode.
-
-
- Virus Protection Software
-
- Some virus protection software packages will 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
-
- Because WordPerfect does not use standard Windows font requests
- when using a WordPerfect printer driver, ATM does not work
- properly with WordPerfect printer drivers. To use ATM with
- WordPerfect for Windows, use the standard Windows printer
- drivers.
-
- WordPerfect for Windows does not allow Windows to display fonts
- properly in 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.
-
-
-
- 10. Novell Netware Considerations
-
- Although ATM is not a network application, you can print to
- network printers using ATM. However, you have to 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 your non-PostScript
- printer.)
-
- 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.
-
-
-
- 11. ATM and IBM 4029 Series Printers
-
- To use ATM with one of the IBM 4029 series printers, you have to
- install version 3.01 or later of the 4029 printer driver and
- version 1.65 of the Generic printer driver. These versions are
- available with Windows 3.1. If you are using Windows 3.0,
- contact your printer dealer or manufacturer for the latest
- drivers.
-
-
-
- 12. 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 roundoff errors occurring between ATM
- font metrics and how the particular 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.
-
- If you are using the Arial MT font, add the following line to
- both the [Aliases] section and [Synonyms] section of your ATM.INI
- file.
-
- Helvetica=Arial MT
-
- If you are using the TimesNewRomanPS font, add the following line
- to both the [Aliases] section and [Synonyms] section of your
- ATM.INI file.
-
- Times=TimesNewRomanPS
-
-
-
- Appendix A. ATM.INI Parameters
-
- The following section contains technical information on ATM
- version 2.02'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 those internal to the
- PostScript printer driver. 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.
-
- Another important point to remember about PostScript
- printers is that, 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 2.02 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 The size of the font cache is configurable
- through the ATM Control Panel. The default is
- 96.
-
- ATM=On Determines whether ATM will be loaded at
- Windows boot time.
-
- BitmapFonts=On This switch is set with the Use Pre-Built or
- Resident Fonts check box on the ATM Control
- Panel. If you change this switch, you do not
- have to restart Windows for the change to take
- effect. You may, however, have to restart
- applications for the setting to take effect.
- The default is On. ATM will defer to screen
- fonts, resident printer fonts, and printer soft
- fonts rather than rasterizing the font itself
- if the font requested by the application is
- available.
-
- SynonymPSBegin=9 This value determines the point size at which
- ATM will start using bitmap deferral for font
- pairs listed in both the Aliases and Synonyms
- sections. The default is 9. It is not
- recommended that this setting be changed.
-
- QLCDir Indicates the path of the QuickLoad file
- ATMFONTS.QLC, which contains a list of
- installed fonts and font metrics, thus reducing
- Windows boot time. You can force ATM to
- rebuild this file by deleting the file with the
- MS-DOS DEL command and restarting Windows.
-
- Version=2.02 This value enables the ATM Installer to
- determine the version of ATM if ATM is not
- active; otherwise, the Installer determines the
- version of ATM from the DLL.
-
- [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 Helv, Tms Rmn, Courier, Roman, and Modern
- bitmapped fonts.
-
- 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 Windows
- Tms Rmn=Times bitmapped fonts. By using PostScript outline
- Courier=Courier 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 PostScript
- Modern=Helvetica outlines instead of the standard Windows vector
- fonts (which are sometimes called "stick"
- 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 some applications with a 1-point
- Courier font.
-
- Helv=Arial MT For Windows 3.0, these settings
- Tms Rmn=TimesNewRomanPS 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 style text.
-
- [Synonyms]
-
- Helv=Helvetica Unlike the font pairs in the Aliases section,
- Tms Rmn=Times the font pairs in the Synonyms are
- Courier=Courier interchangeable. This means that when the font
- Helv is requested at a point size not available
- in bitmapped form, the font Helvetica will be
- used. However, 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; this
- increases performance.
-
-
-