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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 file
ATM.CNF Configuration file (may not be present on
upgrade disks)
FONTINST.TXT Font installation instructions for Adobe
Font Foundry, LaserTools PrimeType and IBM
OS/2 Windows Compatibility Box (present on
special ATM upgrade disk)
Your disk(s) may 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 1.2
megabytes of free disk space. The default directory for the
PostScript fonts is c:\psfonts. These font files can be placed
anywhere on your local hard drive and do not necessarily need to
be located on the c: drive.
3. What's new in version 2.5?
The three new features of version 2.5 are soft fonts on-the-fly
for Windows 3.1 printer drivers, adding and removing fonts
without restarting Windows and improved PostScript soft font
management. The following section outlines these changes.
* When running Windows 3.1, ATM 2.5 will print soft fonts on-
the-fly for printers whose drivers support soft font
creation. These printers include HP LaserJet and IBM Lexmark
printers. Although some printers may have the capability to
handle downloaded printer soft fonts, this feature is
dependent on the capability of the Windows printer driver.
To verify if a Windows 3.1 printer driver is capable of
creating soft fonts, check the Printer Setup Options dialog
box from the Windows Printer Control Panel. If you do not
see the option "Print TrueType as Graphics" the driver most
likely cannot create printer soft fonts on-the-fly.
* ATM 2.5 now adds and removes fonts without having to restart
Windows. 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 you to reselect your current printer
to display a change in the font menu. A few applications,
such as Adobe Illustrator 4.0 and QuattroPro for Windows 1.0,
derive their font menus from the list of fonts available upon
launching. You must relaunch these applications for font
changes to take effect.
* When you add or remove fonts using the ATM 2.5 Control Panel,
the PostScript soft font entries in the WIN.INI are
automatically updated. If you change printer ports, however,
Windows will not transfer the font entries from printer port
to printer port. You must reinstall your fonts so that the
font entries will be written to the newly selected port. ATM
version 2.5 now removes the PostScript soft font entries when
you remove a font a using the ATM Control Panel.
A number of additional changes have been made in version 2.5:
* ATM will defer to resident and cartridge DeskJet fonts when
using the Windows 3.1 DeskJet driver which works in
conjunction with the Universal Printer driver.
* ATM will no longer disable application printing when using
the Windows 3.1 Generic Text driver (TTY.DRV). This driver
only supports its internal font.
* Rotated text in graphics will display correctly in
Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows.
* ATM text in Lotus Freelance will print correctly when any
Windows 3.1 PCL printer driver is configured at lower print
resolutions.
* ATM will print to PCL printers when using Aldus IntelliDraw.
* The ATM 2.5 Installer will install ATM properly if 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. For more technical
information, see Appendix A at the end of this file.
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. Although you
may see over 500 fonts in the ATM Control Panel, an application
may be able to show only 200 fonts. If this problem occurs, try
reducing the number of fonts you have installed.
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 start, you might want to free up more memory
available to Windows and/or reduce the total number of fonts
installed to a set of fonts you frequently use.
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, check the number of soft fonts you have installed in the
PostScript printer section in the WIN.INI. You might have to
remove soft fonts you don't normally use through the ATM Control
Panel to correct the printing problem.
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.
ATM will automatically renumber your soft fonts when you remove
them using the ATM Control Panel, but cannot correct misnumbered
font entries.
The Microsoft Windows 3.1 PostScript driver will allow you to
synthesize an italic style of an PostScript font even if the true
italic outline font is not present on this system. Windows,
however, cannot provide the PostScript driver with the correct
metrics for a synthesized italic face and the font will be
displayed with expanded character spacing. A PostScript printer
will print only the regular style if a synthesized italic face is
requested.
7. Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts
When you select the Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts check box,
ATM will let the PCL printer driver use these fonts at print time
instead of printing the fonts on its own. 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. If you are printing
under Windows 3.1 to printers that support soft fonts on-the-fly,
you may want to turn this option off, since it is actually more
efficient to have the printer driver create the font rather than
letting it download the prebuilt font. To see if you have any
pre-built fonts installed for your PCL printer, check the Fonts
dialog box in the Windows Printer Control Panel Setup menu.
You may find that when this option is selected, resident or soft
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 is 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. If you are printing ATM fonts as soft
fonts, you may have to use the "Print ATM fonts as graphics"
option to have graphic objects and text to print together
correctly.
8. Print ATM Fonts as Graphics
To configure ATM to print as graphics rather than as soft fonts,
check the option "Print ATM fonts as graphics" in the ATM Control
Panel. The change between soft font mode and graphics mode takes
effect immediately in most applications. In a few applications,
such as Word for Windows 2.0, you must first reselect your
printer for a ATM print mode change to take effect. If you
configure your printer driver to print TrueType fonts as
graphics, ATM will always print as graphics regardless of your
configuration in the ATM Control Panel. Some applications, such
as CorelDraw 3.0, always print text as graphics. This feature of
printing ATM text as soft fonts is only available under Windows
3.1x.
9. Install as Autodownload fonts for the PostScript driver
The Microsoft PostScript driver uses the section [PostScript,
portname] in the WIN.INI file to determine the available
installed soft fonts. In the following example the PostScript
printer is configured for the printer 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 soft font entry is made up of two parts: the first part
indicates the path to the printer character metrics file (PFM)
and the second part defines the path to the font outline file
(PFB) for every font. The PFM file is necessary for all fonts
whose character metrics are not hard-coded in the PostScript
driver. The PFB entry is only needed when you want the driver to
download the font outline with every print job. To configure the
Microsoft PostScript driver to automatically download soft fonts
at print time install the font with the option "Install as
autodownload fonts for the PostScript driver" checked. When this
option is checked, ATM will add the PFM and PFB entries for all
fonts. This feature is helpful if your PostScript printer does
not contain the standard Base35 fonts. The Base35 fonts:
AvantGarde, Bookman, Courier, Helvetica, Helvetica Narrow,
NewCenturySchoolbook, Palatino, Symbol, Times, ZapfChancery and
ZapfDingbats, are resident in most newer PostScript printers.
If you are adding fonts to ATM that are already resident on the
printer, you can uncheck this option to instruct the printer
driver not to send the font outline to the printer at print time.
With this option unchecked ATM adds only the PFM entries for the
non-Base35 fonts. Neither the PFM entry nor the PFB entry is
added to the WIN.INI for the Base35 soft fonts when this option
is unchecked. The soft font entries for these fonts do not need
to present in the WIN.INI because the font metrics are hard-coded
in the driver. If present, they will be ignored by the
PostScript driver at print time. In other words, the PostScript
driver will not download the outlines of these fonts if it sees
from the printer driver configuration in the Windows Printer
Control Panel that the fonts are already present on the printer.
The only exception is the font Bookman. If the Bookman PFB entry
is present in the WIN.INI, the driver will download the outline
file at print time. To correct this problem and to force the
driver to use the Bookman font internal in the printer, re-add
the four faces of Bookman with the option "Install as
autodownload fonts for the PostScript driver" 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 internal
printer fonts, the Windows internal bitmapped fonts, installed
TrueType fonts and the fonts listed in the ATM Control Panel.
For PostScript printers, the fonts available are the fonts
resident in the printer, installed TrueType fonts and the
PostScript soft-font entries listed in the printer's section in
the WIN.INI file. 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 may 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 will generate a graphic image of colored text regardless of
ATM print mode (soft font or graphics mode). To force ATM to
generate black/white soft fonts to monochrome printers and color
soft fonts to printers such as the HP PaintJet 300xl, simply add
a new section in your ATM.INI called [Colors] and insert the line
PrintColorGraphics=Off. Please refer to Appendix A for more
details.
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
To install the fonts from the Adobe PlusPack and Adobe PostScript
and Type cartridges, copy all files to a temporary directory on
your hard disk and add the fonts using the ATM Control Panel.
Because these fonts are already resident on your printer, uncheck
the "Install as autodownload fonts for the PostScript driver"
option and add all of the fonts from the temporary directory to
your standard fonts directory. After the fonts have been
successfully installed into ATM and their files are in located in
their proper directories, you can delete the files from 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
lines SYSTEM.DRV=ATMSYS.DRV and ATM.SYSTEM.DRV=SYSTEM.DRV with
the line SYSTEM.DRV = SYSTEM.DRV, launch Windows and install ATM
as instructed in the manual.
14. Application Notes
When you add or remove a font while an application is active, the
font menus are not always updated automatically. The following
applications will update their font menus when the current
printer driver is reselected: AmiPro 3.0, Freehand 3.0, Freelance
1.0, PageMaker 4.0, Ventura Publisher for Windows and WordPerfect
for Windows 5.1.
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 have a later version of Illustrator, make sure the
application is closed before adding or removing fonts. You will
see the font change the next time you launch Illustrator. The
two enumerator files PSENUM.DLL and RUN_ENUM.EXE, which register
ATM font changes, are located in the Windows system directory.
In order for font changes to take effect immediately after
restarting Illustrator, you need the latest versions of these
files. If your enumerator files are dated 7/17/92 or earlier,
you can receive the updates to these files free of charge by
contacting Customer Support at (415) 961-4992. These files
can also be downloaded from the Adobe CompuServe forum.
CorelDraw!
CorelDraw! 3.0 now supports ATM fonts. Adobe strongly recommends
obtaining the maintenance release version 3.0b. You must restart
CorelDraw! for 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
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. 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 can
not recognize the installed PostScript printers and will not
properly add PostScript soft fonts 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
reinstate the FaceLift printer option.
Harvard Draw 1.01
Harvard Draw 1.01 support ATM fonts. You must restart the
application for font changes to take effect.
Harvard Graphics 1.01 for Windows
Harvard Graphics cannot rotate ATM fonts. Harvard uses its own
internal scalable fonts for all rotated text.
For font changes to take effect you must select another printer
driver and switch back to the original driver.
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.
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 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. Please
refer to the Norton Desktop manual for installing a new icon in a
group.
Quattro Pro for Windows 1.0
You must restart the application for 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.
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. This file is not Windows 3.1 compatible. The new
TypeAlign Installer 2.1 will not add this line to the WIN.INI.
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 will not display correctly in
Reduced View.
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) may print out as
double single quotes with some printer drivers. The generic
bullet character (Alt+0149) may print out 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 configured
to print ATM fonts as graphics, text might not print correctly in
draft mode.
Various Font Management Utilities
Some font management utilities such as FontMinder 1.0 and the
font conversion utility AllType automatically update the ATM.INI.
You must restart Windows for font changes in the ATM.INI
introduced by these utilities to take effect.
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
ATM requires the standard Windows printer drivers in order to
print ATM text. This means that the WordPerfect for Windows 5.1
printer-specific driver cannot be used, 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 roundoff 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. If you are using the fonts
Arial MT and TimesNewRomanPS, add the following lines to both the
[Aliases] section and [Synonyms] section of your ATM.INI file.
Helvetica=Arial MT
Times=TimesNewRomanPS
The lines Helv=Arial MT and 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 in
the ATM Control Panel to see if you have all of the following
fonts installed: Helvetica, Times, Arial MT and TimesNewRomanPS.
If so, you must manually edit the ATM.INI file and replace the
lines Helv=Arial MT, Helvetica=Arial MT, Tms Rmn=TimesNewRomanPS
and Times=TimesNewRomanPS in the Aliases and Synonyms sections
with the lines Helv=Helvetica and 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, Shelia 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. It is recommended that this value
not be set to more than 64k for each megabyte
of physical memory.
ATM=On Determines whether or not ATM will be loaded
at Windows startup 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 might, however, have to
restart applications for the setting to take
effect. The default setting is On. ATM will
defer 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.
SynonymPSBegin=9 This value specifies 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 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 if ATM is not
active; otherwise, the Installer determines
the version of ATM from the 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 some
applications with a 1-point Courier
font.
Helv=Arial MT If you have received ATM bundled with
Helvetica=Arial MT another application, you may have the
Tms Rmn=TimesNewRomanPS 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 Synonyms
Courier=Courier are 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.
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
font deferral does not apply.
[Colors] This section may be added to the
ATM.INI to override internal ATM
defaults. The switch is global for
all applications. While enabling this
switch may be useful for a special
purpose in a particular application,
it can also produce unexpected results
in other applications you are using at
the same time when this switch is in
effect.
PrintColorGraphics=Off This switch instructs ATM to print
colored text as soft fonts under
Windows 3.1 rather than dithered
graphics. The printer driver must
support soft font creation for this
switch to work. For most printer
drivers the resulting soft fonts will
print as black or white fonts.