WinWord: Adobe Type Manager Troubleshooting Release Notes

• Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.1a, 2.0, 2.0a, 2.0a-CD, 2.0b, 2.0c

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Note: According to Adobe Technical Support, versions of ATM prior to 2.0 have not been tested and are not guaranteed compatibility under Windows 3.1.

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General Hints and Tips

Times Versus Tms Rmn

Both Times and Tms Rmn appear on your applications' font menus when ATM is on. ATM automatically substitutes Times whenever it sees Tms Rmn (for compatibility with existing documents); it is more reliable to select Times than Tms Roman. The same is true for Helvetica vs. Helv.

Maximum Number of Fonts

ATM version 1.15 can install a maximum of 1500 fonts. However, Windows limits the number of PostScript soft font entries in your WIN.INI file to approximately 175. If you get spurious printer error messages when starting your application or switching to a PostScript printer, you may have reached this limit. If you have too many fonts installed to the driver, your font drop down box in Word for Windows appears blank (empty); no choices are available.

Turn off ATM, and restart Windows. If the condition persists, you must manually remove these entries from your WIN.INI file.

Windows Vector Fonts

To eliminate the "stick-figure" appearance of the Roman and Modern Windows fonts, ATM substitutes its scalable Times and Helvetica fonts respectively. If you do not want ATM to make this substitution, delete the following two lines from the [Aliases] section of your ATM.INI file:

   Roman=Times
   Modern=Helvetica

PostScript Printer Font Downloading

The Add Font option in the ATM Control Panel adds the selected fonts to every PostScript printer in WIN.INI as manually downloaded fonts. This configuration minimizes printing time because fonts are not downloaded by Windows every time there is a font change in your document; however, the desired fonts must be resident in the printer (either in memory or on the printer's hard disk) before printing. You can reconfigure a manually downloaded font as an automatically downloaded font by modifying its entry in the PostScript section of WIN.INI. See the documentation provided with your font package for more information.

Installing or Reinstalling a New Version of ATM

If you already have a version of ATM installed on your system, turn it off using the ATM Control Panel, and restart Windows before running the ATM Installer.

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Adobe Type Manager (R) 1.15 Release Notes