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- Adobe Type Manager (R) 1.15 Release Notes
- Windows Version
- April 15, 1991
-
- Adobe Type Manager is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems
- Incorporated. Copyright 1983-1991 Adobe Systems Incorporated.
- All Rights Reserved. Patents Pending.
-
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- APPLICATION-SPECIFIC NOTES
-
- >> Ami Professional 1.2
- > Twelve-point Tms Rmn text may not enlarge in Ami's Enlarged view.
- This also occurs without ATM. Use Times instead of Tms Rmn.
- > If you use Ami's Pair Kerning option, wait until you are ready
- to print before activating it, rather than leaving it on all the
- time.
-
- >> Corel Draw 1.21 & 2.0
- These versions of Corel Draw do not support ATM.
-
- >> PageMaker 3.01 & 4.0
- > For the best results with ATM, set the Vector text above and
- Stretch text above limits in PageMaker's Preferences dialog box
- to 600 pixels (the maximum) for PageMaker 3.01 and 10,000 pixels
- for version 4.0. Earlier versions had a maximum of 127 pixels.
- > Underline and strikeout lines may appear broken when automatic
- kerning and/or justification is in effect, due to the way
- PageMaker handles automatic kerning. Turning paired kerning off
- will correct this problem.
-
- >> PowerPoint 2.0
- For the best results at small point sizes on screen, remove the
- "Small Fonts" font using the Fonts option in the Windows Control
- Panel.
-
- >> Toolbook 1.0
- Text may appear jagged when printed from Toolbook. This is
- because Toolbook does its own scaling of the screen image for
- printing, rather than using Windows' (or ATM's) font facilities.
-
- >> Ventura Publisher Windows Edition v3.0
- > Backspacing at the end of a line sometimes causes the line to
- move down the screen one line per backspace. This also occurs
- without ATM.
- > In Reduced View, the fonts Helvetica and Times will not display
- correctly.
-
- >> Word for Windows 1.1
- > The typeface used in the ruler and in the status bar may not be
- Helvetica. This is normal -- Word uses the first variable pitch
- sans-serif font available in the [Fonts] section of your ATM.INI
- file.
- > The bullet character displays and prints as a lowercase "o".
- This is a feature of Word.
-
- >> Excel 3.0
- > When printing to a PCL printer such as the LaserJet Series II,
- make sure that the print resolution in the printer setup menu is
- set to 300 dpi.
- > If you are using rotated text in graphs, you must remove the aliases
- for the Roman and Modern fonts. See "Windows Vector fonts" below.
-
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- GENERAL HINTS AND TIPS
-
- >> "Times" vs. "Tms Rmn"
- Both Times and Tms Rmn appear in your applications' font menus when
- ATM is on. While ATM automatically substitutes Times whenever it
- sees Tms Rmn (for backward compatibility with existing documents),
- itis more reliable to select Times instead. The same is true for
- Helvetica vs. Helv.
-
- >> Maximum number of fonts
- ATM 1.15 can install a maximum of 1500 fonts. However, Windows
- apparently limits the number of PostScript soft font entries in
- your WIN.INI file to approximately 175. If you get spurious
- printer error messages when starting your application or switching
- to a PostScript printer, you may have reached this limit. Turn off
- ATM and restart Windows. If the condition still persists, you must
- manually remove these entries from your WIN.INI file.
-
- >> Windows vector fonts
- ATM will substitute its scalable Times and Helvetica for Windows'
- Roman and Modern, respectively, in order to eliminate the "stick-
- figure" appearance of these fonts. If you don't want ATM to make
- this substitution, delete the following two lines from the
- [Aliases] section of your ATM.INI file:
- Roman=Times
- Modern=Helvetica
-
- >> PostScript printer font downloading
- The Add font option in the ATM Control Panel adds the selected
- fonts to every PostScript printer in WIN.INI as manually downloaded
- fonts. This configuration minimizes printing time since fonts will
- not be downloaded by Windows every time there is a font change in
- your document; however, the desired fonts must be resident in the
- printer (either in memory or on the printer's hard disk) before printing.
- You can reconfigure a manually downloaded font as an automatically
- downloaded font by modifying its entry in the PostScript section of
- WIN.INI. See the documentation provided with your font package for
- more information.
-
- >> Re-installing or installing a new version of ATM
- If you already have a version of ATM installed on your system,
- turn it off using the ATM Control Panel and restart Windows before
- running the ATM Installer.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- TROUBLESHOOTING
-
- Problem: ATM displays the message "ATM fonts and PostScript printer
- fonts don't match on xxx."
-
- Solution: "xxx" is the name of the first font that does not match.
- This message appears if your PostScript printer is not "active" or if
- you have changed printer ports since installing fonts through the ATM
- Control Panel. To reactivate your printer, you must use the Printers
- option in the Windows Control Panel; selecting the printer from your
- application's Printer Setup menu alone is not enough. If you have
- changed printer ports, you must add the fonts again through the ATM
- Control Panel.
-
-
- Problem: Justified text sometimes extends beyond the right margin
- on screen.
-
- Solution: Turn off the "Use pre-built or resident bitmap fonts"
- option in the ATM Control Panel.
-
-
- Problem: Italic or script fonts are sometimes clipped at the end
- of a line or at the current cursor position.
-
- Solution: This is a limitation of Windows and affects only screen
- display of text. The text will print correctly with ATM.
-
-
- Problem: Some colors of text print incorrectly on an HP PaintJet.
-
- Solution: Version 1.0 of the HP PaintJet driver and version 1.0
- of Zenographics' SuperPrint do not correctly support color printing
- with ATM. Version 1.1 of SuperPrint and version 1.01 of the HP
- driver correct this problem.
-
-
- Problem: Ventura Publisher v3.0 displays a "Divide by zero" error
- message.
-
- Solution: This is due to the way Ventura Publisher manages font
- information. Exit Ventura Publisher, remove some fonts using the
- ATM Control Panel and restart Windows. Contact Ventura for the
- "11/90 patch" disk at (800) 822-8221.
-
-
- Problem: Selecting text in Ami Professional 1.2 seems sluggish.
-
- Solution: Turn off the Pair Kerning option in Ami's Defaults menu
- until you are ready to print. The sluggishness also occurs without
- ATM when using printers that support automatic kerning (such as
- PostScript printers). The sluggishness is due to Ami's extra
- overhead in performing its kerning calculations. Since ATM provides
- automatic kerning capabilities for all Windows-supported printers,
- this suggestion also applies to non-PostScript printers.
-
-
- Problem: Courier text is clipped at sizes smaller than 9 point on
- screen and on printed output.
-
- Solution: In order to avoid problems with applications that do
- not handle Courier correctly, ATM must return a fixed-size screen
- bitmapped font for small sizes. You can change this by deleting
- the following line from the [Aliases] section of your ATM.INI file:
- Courier=Courier
- ATM will then provide the exact (unclipped) size of Courier requested
- by your applications. Note that some applications don't expect to
- receive the size they requested. For example, the numbers in the
- ruler of AmiPro 1.2 will be displayed in 1 point type.
-
-