Too many TT fonts installed

[Murray Eisenberg]

Forgive me if I posted similarly to a similar message some weeks or
months ago...

I'm using Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.1 on my Windows XP Professional
machine together with DVIwindo 2.2.1 without any apparent difficulties
(but see below) and to good effect.

In programs where I need to select a font, e.g., in a web-authoring
program, by means of a drop-down menu of all available fonts, using Type
Manager Deluxe means I don't have to look at a huge list of scores of
the fonts actually installed -- just those that happen to be "active"
under ATM at the time.  And ATM makes these very easy by allowing you to
create "sets" of fonts of your choosing.  Then with a simple mouse click
inside ATM you can deactivate or activate all the fonts in a given set.
  For example, I can that way deactivate the whole big set of cm fonts
while I'm doing web-authoring.

The one catch of which I'm aware so far is that font names that are too
long give ATM trouble.  I've encountered this in only two cases so far:

(1) One of the Y&Y fonts -- sorry don't recall which one, but I think it
belonged either to the Times/Math Times set or the Lucida Bright set.
The solution for that involved modifying the internal name of the font
inside the file (Berthold Horn did that).

(2) A couple of the "new" Mathematica TrueType fonts (the ones named
"Mathematica..." rather than the old ones named "Math...".  The solution
here was simply to leave these fonts in the Windows\Fonts directory
rather than using ATM to move them to the ATM subdirectory of that
directory.  (So if I want to deactiveate these temporarily, I have to
select the list of individually-listed Mathematica TrueType fonts rather
than do the mouse click of a set.

paul wrote:
> Ch.
>
> You are not supposed to use ATM Deluxe or ATM lite on Windows XP.  Windows
> XP has its own proprietary method of managing fonts.
>
> Paul
>
>
> Christina Thiele wrote:
>
>
>>Mimi Burbank writes:
>>
>>>On Jun29 10:39AM, Christina Thiele wrote:
>>>
>>>>Don Robinson writes:
>>>
>>>>Do you by chance have Adobe Type Manager on the machine?
>>>>
>>>>On XP machines, it's supposed to be very useful for managing (NOT
>>>>installing) fonts for different applications. That is, you set up
>>>>folders for each application (or maybe group of applications), and
>>>>then indicate which fonts are supposed to be active when that app's
>>>>running.
>>>
>>>
>>>bear in mind this is  ATM Lite!   not the full thing....
>>>
>>>mimi
>>>
>>
>>I'm confused. You mean ATM Lite is only supposed to be used with XP? I
>>thought we'd seen some people say ATM Deluxe, and some ATM Lite
>>... and thus we had no consensus ;-(
>>
>>But I did mean I'd seen ATM Deluxe, but it was on networked NT
>>machines.
>>
>>Does anyone feel motivated to go through the old mail archives to see
>>what's been said about XP + ATM (Deluxe/Lite)?
>>
>>Ch.
>
>

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