How to Install Equation Editor Fonts Using ATM

 Last reviewed: September 9, 1996
Article ID: Q80975
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Equation Editor version 1.0

SUMMARY

When you use the Microsoft Equation Editor, which ships with Microsoft Word for Windows version 2.0, in the Microsoft Windows operating system version 3.0 with a Hewlett-Packard DeskJet printer or a dot-matrix printer, you must use a font manager to print the Equation Editor fonts. The font manager enables non-PCL and non-PostScript printers to use Equation Editor fonts. This article describes how to use one specific font manager, Adobe Type Manager (ATM), to install Equation Editor fonts.

ATM recognizes only PostScript Type 1 fonts. To obtain the Equation Editor PostScript fonts, you must install a PostScript driver through the Windows Control Panel and make the corresponding printer the default printer. After installing the driver, you must run a custom installation of Word for Windows to reinstall the Equation Editor only. With the PostScript printer active, the Equation Editor installs the PostScript fonts that are recognized by the ATM control panel.

When you run Word for Windows version 2.0 with Windows 3.1, no font manager is required. The TrueType font technology of Windows 3.1 allows any printer to print the Equation Editor fonts.

MORE INFORMATION

To install Equation Editor fonts with Adobe Type Manager, use the following steps:

  1. Exit Word for Windows and Equation Editor.

  2. Activate the ATM Control Panel. Note: The ATM icon usually displays as a lower-case cursive "a."

  3. In ATM, choose the Add button.

  4. Specify the entire path to the fonts that you added when setting up the Equation Editor. The following is a typical path: 

          C:\WINDOWS\MSAPPS\EQUATION

  5. The Fences, MT Symbol, MT Extra, and MT Symbol Italic fonts appear in the Available Fonts box.

  6. Choose the fonts to be installed, and choose the Add button.

  7. You must exit and restart Microsoft Windows for the ATM changes to take effect.

For more information on PostScript Type 1 fonts, query on the following words in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   deskjet and non-pcl and non-postscript and dot-matrix and atm

REFERENCES

"Microsoft Equation Editor User's Guide," version 1.0, pages 66-67

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Last reviewed: September 9, 1996
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