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- From: ardie@UIUC (Ardie Mack)
- Subject: Re: HELP for Adobe Type Manager!
- References: <mwong.727660547@ee.ualberta.ca>
- Message-ID: <ardie.188.727709010@UIUC>
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- Organization: Department of Plant Pathology
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:23:30 GMT
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- In article <mwong.727660547@ee.ualberta.ca> mwong@ee.ualberta.ca (Michael Wong) writes:
- >From: mwong@ee.ualberta.ca (Michael Wong)
- >Subject: HELP for Adobe Type Manager!
- >Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:55:47 GMT
- >Hi Dear,
- > What ATM Control Panel can do for me
- >if I don't have a laser printer? Can I still
- >be able to use the fonts on my dot matrix printer?
- >Do I need to secrifice any memory or speed ?
- >Looks like it just recognize the fonts that comes
- >with windows 3.1. I found it take up around 1M
- >on my system. If that thing doesn't give me any
- >specifically useful utility, I will just clean it
- >out of my system. Would the fonts it shown in the
- >ATM Control Panel be useful to other Win programs
- >such as WordPerfect/Win?
- >
- > Please specifically tell me how to use the
- >Adobe Type Manager effectively. And how can I
- >benefit from it?
- >
- > Also, I tried to clean it out by deleting
- >the directories psfonts\ and ptm\, but seems like
- >it tries to load the ATM control panel every time
- >when I load win3.1. I think it changed some of
- >the setting of my win3.1 *.ini files, but I don't
- >know which file and which line. Please tell me the
- >correct way of removal of this program.
- >
- >Please Help!!
- >
- >Many Thanks
- >
- >Mike
-
-
- Look in the ATM documentation for how to de-install. It was one of the
- first programs to offer de-installation instructions, and they are
- good. (If you don't have the docs because you used someone else's, then you
- DESERVE to be stuck with it!)
- As to your original question, you must have some kind of good typefaces
- if you use a dot matrix printer and want to scale fonts. If you don't
- already have loads of ATM-like fonts, then go with the True Type fonts in
- Win31. They do about the same thing.
- Both TTF's and ATMF's can run at the same time, but you do pay a price
- in disk space and RAM usage. Like I said, if you have dozens of ATMF's (
- because there have been hundreds available as share- or freeware), stay with
- ATM. If not, but you still run Win30, you still need ATM. Otherwise, try
- to get rid of ATM and stay with the TTF installed by Win31.
-