Re: NT shuts out third-party font packages

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

--- From a message sent by jordan pollack on 12/21/98 7:40 AM ---

>I pointed to the demise of Adobe ATM a year ago in this forum.
>
>First, 3 years ago my kid's CREATIVE WRITER software would not recognize
>postscript fonts, so they were limited to the few Truetype which came
>along.
>
>Then, when I was forced to accept the W95 upgrade with my Sony laptop, 
>I couldn't get ATM to function, and invested in the ATM 4 deluxe
>upgrade. 
>Even the upgrade was unable to function with the superfast neomagic
>video driver. 
>I chose fast video and returned ATM deluxe.
>
>To save hundreds of dollars in fonts from obsolescence, I
>uploaded all fonts to an NT4 system, where they were automatically
>converted to truetype, and brought them back. 

Type One Adobe fonts and ATM may be dead on the Windows platform, but 
they're alive and kicking on the Mac. Most in the graphic arts community 
prefer ATM to TrueType -- they'd go berserk if forced to change for 
political rather than technical reasons. The fundamental illegitimacy of 
Microsoft's forced march on font technologies is witnessed by the ease 
with which these methods, and the others, can coexist.

Mitch Stone
mstone@vc.net