ATM for Windows XP

[Herbert Gintis]

At 11:24 AM 12/25/2003 -0500, Christina Thiele wrote:
>Neil A Weiss writes:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Which version of ATM is recommended for computers
> > running Y&Y on Windows XP?
         I was recommended Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.1. It works fine
with Y & Y.

Herb


> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Neil
> >
> > Neil A. Weiss, Ph.D.
> > Voice: 928-541-1112
> > Email: neil.a.weiss at juno.com
> >
>
>
>In mail from a while back, I found the following from Mike Prager,
>who's often supplied very useful tips and information:
>
> > From all the reports and my experiences, it seems that Y&Y
> > (especially DVIPSONE) does not work well in finding fonts under
> > Windows XP unless ATM Deluxe is used.  Another user here had
> > absolutely no luck, despite  installing, uninstalling, reinstalling,
> > and so on, until he used ATM to manage the fonts.
>
>What needs to be reinforced is that ATM actually can do two things:
>
>    a. install fonts
>    b. manage fonts
>
>Under Win2000/XP, it must NOT be used for installing fonts -- the
>rasterising work it did for font installatino under Win95/98/NT is now
>part of the Win2000/XP environment, so all you do is drag the .pfm
>files (the ones with the red-a) into the c:\windows\fonts folder (or
>c:\winnt\fonts) folder.
>
>On the other hand, as Mike reported above, ATM Deluxe is very useful
>in managing fonts. I believe it's only Deluxe that allows you to turn
>whole font sets on and off, once they've been set up with their
>pertinent (i.e. application-specific) folders.
>
>
>It's holiday time right now. I'd suggest waiting until a few more
>people with direct experience (mine is with ATM Lite on an NT box)
>post -- either to contradict me with true facts ;-), or to corroborate
>what's been written above.
>
>If you have to, go ahead with ATM but make darn sure it's NOT active
>(you can find an of/off switch in one of its menus) while you install
>Y&Y's fonts.
>
>Of course, if you've already got Y&YTeX installed, and are just adding
>ATM, then I'd say reading the ATM manual on how to set up
>application-specific folders and activating the pertinent fonts would
>be the next step.
>
>Hope this helps ...
>
>Ch.

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