Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!decwrl!adobe!bezanson From: bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager Message-ID: <1256@adobe.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 00:20:01 GMT References: <15514@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1179@adobe.UUCP> <22693@cup.portal.com> <1474@intercon.com> Reply-To: bezanson@adobe.UUCP (Brian Bezanson) Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View Lines: 51 In article <1474@intercon.com> amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes: >In article <22693@cup.portal.com>, Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott) >writes: >> >> - Apple has said it will not support rotated text with its Royal scheme. >> Will ATM offer that? >> > >Royal itself isn't the problem--it's QuickDraw that won't handle rotation. >ATM will probably have the same problem. > >The question I have is whether or not Apple and/or Adobe will put in rotation >"hooks" (such as interpreting the LaserWriter Driver PicComments) that will >allow drawing programs to ask for it. That would be something of extreme >niftyness... I think what most people mean by rotated text (correct me if I'm wrong ;-) is printing text that has been rotated by Applications such as canvas, MacDraw, etc... All they do is some off screen rotation of the bitmap and then copybit(ing) it over. These applications print fine with ATM to PostScript or QuickDraw based printers. I can't comment on Royal fonts here. As for future versions of ATM - I'll mark down your suggestions and pass them on to the product manager. I also wanted to add a few answers to Bill Mariott's earlier questions (rn would crash when I tried). 1) ATM and Adobe Illustrator. A new version of Adobe Illustrator will be shipped to all registered AI 88 owners (version 1.9). It will be compatible with ATM, will save EPS files w/color previews, compatible w/32 bit QuickDraw, and work with the Adobe Originals Expert sets. Before you ask when it will be available, it just went into Q.A., with a mass mailing to all owners it should be arriving end of October-beginning November. I'll post further details. AI 88 1.9 won't edit the outlines and I can't comment on the version 3.0 release yet :-) 2) Font Folio (entire Adobe Type library on a disk) comes w/a back-up copy of the outlines that can be used on a Mac. Unfortunately you can't read the outlines off of the printers hard disk* - besides it would violate some legal agreement somewhere, speed would be horrible, etc... You still get speed benefits of having the drive on the printer (saves downloading time and for users who might not have ATM installed). The outlines need to be in the System Folder unless you relocate them with MasterJuggler 1.5 or Suitcase II 1.2.5 (or later versions). (*) I can't comment entirely on that topic. 3) Rotated text - see above original question. -- Brian Bezanson bezanson@adobe.com Adobe Systems Incorporated The opinions expressed above are my own and may not represent those of Adobe.