Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!tj
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: Need help with ATM 1.0 and QMS 410 LaserPrinter.
Message-ID: <1991May22.135451.8606@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <1991May22.095230.5495@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 13:54:51 GMT

>I've just installed ATM 1.0 with PageMaker 4.0.
>When I start PageMaker ATM tells me that
>ATM fonts and Postscript Printer fonts dosn't match on Gill.. font

This is a FLAME not towards the author, but towards Aldus and Adobe.
The ATM package included with PM4 is not the same as the one you buy. 
Instead of containing Helvetica and Times-Roman it comes with 2 fonts
Gils Sans and some other, I don't recall cause I have the real ATM.

Fonts, especially soft fonts, are extremely confusing for most users.
With ATM for Windows 3.0 things finally started to settle down. There
were no problems with matching screen fonts and printer fonts. Installation
problems were reduced. As I said, things looked like they were going
to settle down.

Were things going too smoothly? Must have been. Lets distribute a slight
variation on ATM that stirs things up a little. Lets not give them real Times
and Helvetica. 

I'm sure there was some real good marketing or licensing reason for this 
but let me say that from and end user perspective, the problems created
by this cause confusion that cost unmeasureably. 

Thanks Aldus and Adobe.

P.S. I think the answer was to re-select the printer in PM to get the
message to go away or something simple like that. The simplicity of the
fix is not the point, the confusion is.



