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Yes, Adobe is really desktop laser printers and always at deadline time. You Need ATM Lite? Mac OS X combines Apple’s new Apple Type Solution (ATS) with the giving the heave-ho could be printed at any size. Instead, one simple TrueType You don’t need the free ATM Lite Quartz graphics engine to render 2D objects like fonts and graphics to 2 to long time users The screen versions of these font suitcase was easy to install 2 for screen font rasterization if screen. Because Quartz is based on Adobe’s efficient PDF technology, of its font management “Type 1” PostScript fonts were and keep track of. w You only use TrueType fonts Quartz offers native support for PostScript Type 1, TrueType and software, ATM Deluxe. The still bit-map only and still w You use PostScript fonts but Too Many Fonts Adobe’s new OpenType fonts. (OpenType fonts are a new cross- company has stated on a usually 10-24 . There was only with InDesign, Illustrator 9, platform single file font technology —ed.) When Apple introduced the special web that Adobe still the problem viewing 13 and/or Photoshop 6 or higher Quartz’s built-in, system-level antialiasing means that font display in Mac with its handful of “city” Type Manager Deluxe will not point on screen but w In Mac OS X you use PostScript OS X native programs does not require Adobe Type Manager to make fonts it never envisioned a be developed for Mac OS X. it printed out great! fonts in Mac OS X native programs. scalable fonts appear smooth on screen. (http://www.adobe.com/ world with tens of thousands But this begs the question: Has Apple given us all the tools we need The Dawn of ATM of digital . The early products/atm/atmOSX.html) You Need ATM Deluxe? to work with fonts in Mac OS X? While Mac OS X has elegant, native Adobe solved the QuickDraw Mac operating system had very Don’t be fooled however. You don’t need ATM Deluxe to support for the display and selection of various fonts –and even comes This was not a sudden end. font display problem by limited numbers of font manage your fonts if with a selection of high quality – it is still lacking a tool for 3 3 resource numbers available. w You keep all fonts in your the management of the hundreds, sometimes thousands, of fonts that Adobe's font management application, is This limited resource number System Folder fonts folder. designers and service bureaus typically work with. was quickly increased and w If you use an alternative font not compatible with Mac OS X, in either finally eliminated by selecting management utility such as The Importance of Being Managed native or Classic mode. fonts by name rather resource Extensis Suitcase, Diamondsoft If you thought managing your fonts was a chore in Mac OS 9 and number. Font Reserve or ALSoft earlier then you have another think coming when load up Apple’s new FontJuggler. Mac OS X. Whereas there is only one default location for fonts in providing a limited version of But a big problem still Rather, the web announcement Classic Mac OS –the venerable System Folder:Fonts folder– there are Display PostScript called Adobe remained. The operating is just the final coup de grace five different locations where fonts can be stored in OS X! in a long slow decline. In this Type Manager which would use system had a limit for open fonts would render to screen files and each font suitcase well without ATM. It began, by In addition to any fonts located in the OS 9.1 Classic environment article we will examine just the information in the (The System Folder:Fonts folder), there are four different font counted as one of these open building Display Postscript into what ATM/ATM Deluxe do and PostScript printer font directories in Mac OS X. Fonts are registered (loaded) and searched for 4 files. To -handle around early versions of Illustrator. 4 we’ll find out under what dictionary to render a smooth in the following order, and in the following locations: circumstances this new limit, a These days, the current clever programmer versions of Illustrator, System /System/Library/Fonts (read-only default system fonts) you need them Local /Library/Fonts (machine-specific fonts not part of the set of default system fonts) invented the Photoshop and InDesign all –if at all! Network /Network/Library/Fonts (site-specific fonts through a corporate LAN/WAN) Suitcase font Desk have their own Display User ~/Library/Fonts (user-specific fonts) In the Accessory. This little PostScript engines which If a font file exists in more than one of the above locations, the last piece of software render fonts to the screen. So, beginning to be registered is used. At the dawn of allowed fonts to if you are using these applica- desktop accessed even when tions you no longer need ATM publishing time they were outside for its smoothing capabilities. (which as many the system folder. Apple saw the writing on 5 a Macintosh Number limits no the wall (so-to-speak), and 5 owner with a longer applied. built Type 1 font rasterization into Mac OS 9 although it has battery problem ATM Deluxe has come to not caught on with software Adobe stepped in at know is January developers. And, Apple’s Mac this point to add 4, 1904), there OS X uses Quartz –a version of Recommended settings for ATM Control Panel Suitcase-like font was Apple’s Adobe Display PostScript. management to its ATM QuickDraw screen language. Did you know that by screen rendition of the product. ATM for font smooth- With it came bit-mapped Adobe’s own admission the last at any size. The bit- ing on screen became ATM screen fonts from various cities supported version of Mac OS mapped fonts remain as a sort Deluxe when it could open The Font Panel in Mac OS X like Chicago, Geneva and San for ATM was 9.0.4. Although of hook for ATM to hang the and close fonts and font sets. Francisco. Screen fonts were 9.1 survived testing by The OS X Font Panel 6 Display PostScript tricks on. As the Suitcase Desk 6 available in specific sizes – Adobe’s quality assurance Accessory was bought and sold What help does Mac OS X give to sort out this mess? Well, the OS X usually 10, 12, 14, 18, and 24 The TrueType Detour people the company failed to Font Panel is a nice organization tool that allows users to organize from company to company point. If you wanted to display ATM and PostScript fonts put its seal of approval on the their fonts into collections. This (going to Fifth Generation a different size like say 13 worked so well that Apple and match. should make tasks like font Systems, Symantec and finally point you were out-of-luck as Microsoft decided they should At least that’s what the selection easier. Will it be ending up at Extensis), ATM the scaling capabilities were be getting a piece of this juicy above-noted Adobe web page enough? Likely not. Deluxe became the defacto not so good. (You could pie. Together (yes, together) says. It appears to be out-of- The new OS X Font Panel standard of font management. however make 12 point type the two companies created the date however. ATM Lite 4.6.2 (illustrated above) is available has been updated to work with look better by specifying 24 TrueType font specification to Decline and Fall only to Cocoa (rewritten from point screen fonts and break Adobe’ monopoly. Mac OS X Classic (Mac OS 9.1/ the ground up for OS X) Despite this ascendancy, the 9.2 and should be installed applications (like Apple Mail) reducing the printout to 50%). TrueType had some advantages seeds of ATM’s downfall were 7 Into this world of city states from the start. It printed just as even when using ATM Deluxe and some Carbon (adapted for 7 being sewn by Adobe itself. the Mac OS environment) came Adobe, the creator of the well to non-PostScript printers version 4.6.1 under Mac OS With TrueType fonts not applications (e.g. FileMaker Pro PostScript printer language. as to PostScript ones. There versions 8.1 through 9.2.1. requiring ATM (Lite or Deluxe) 5.5 for X does not have it while PostScript allowed quality was no longer a duality of As Adobe has clearly stated: at all, Adobe realized that it FreeHand 10 for X does). Many typefaces like Times and screen/printer fonts just The time to check out the could add value to its products alternatives is now! * Carbon and all Classic applica- Helvetica to be brought to waiting to get separated – by ensuring that PostScript tions will not have access to the Font Panel's collections. Besides, Apple’s admittedly elegant Font Panel and its Font Reserve 2.6 Suitcase 10 collections are not there for Diamond in the Rough? All Grown Up management purposes but for 8 organization and selection 8 System supplied fonts in Mac OS X Font Reserve may be the undiscovered gem of font The venerable Suitcase font manager software is now in its purposes. You cannot activate management. IF you can get past its somewhat ugly and third iteration at the hands of Extensis. With the recently and deactivate fonts in the Font complicated interface you will find a range of manage- released version 10, Suitcase has fully matured and finally Panel. For that you will need a digital.roadmap ment features unmatched by any existing font utility. provides auto-activation and offers support for Adobe’s Multiple true font management utility like In addition to the easy creation of font sets Font Reserve allows you to Master fonts. Extensis Suitcase or copyright © 2001, Precursor Systems specify an ownership characteristic to each set. This allows you to Suitcase has an elegant and clean interface that takes advantage of DiamondSoft Font Reserve (when they are ported to X). Published quarterly in Winnipeg, activate and deactivate all the font sets for one customer at a single the best that the Mac OS has to offer. For example, Extensis uses Canada. Volume 2001: Issue Q4 click. Apple’s own FontSync technology to match fonts. Perhaps the best Managing fonts in Mac OS X promises to be an even greater Conceptualized, designed, written, DiamondSoft uses a proprietary font matching system called new feature is the Suitcase Control Strip Module allowing access to illustrated, typeset, and printed at FontSense to determine which font is the exact match for fonts in font sets through Apple’s Control Strip. challenge than it has become in Precursor Systems by you know who. the world of Mac OS Classic. We existing documents. Annoying deficiencies like only being able to add one font at a time Subscriptions/back issues at: 9 9 Plug-ins are available to aid auto-activation in programs like Quark, have been eliminated. look forward to seeing what www.precursor.ca/digital.roadmap/ DiamondSoft and Extensis can Illustrator and InDesign. Plug-ins to aid auto-activation are available for Quark and Illustra- Comments to: develop for Mac OS X. * Hopefully, when it is carbonized to the Mac OS X aqua interface, tor. And like DiamondSoft, Extensis is committed to releasing a [email protected] that ugly user interface will be gone. * carbonized Mac OS X version before 2002. *

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