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Adobe Type Manager

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Users of ATM 4.0 (Light or Deluxe) on Windows 95/98/ME who upgrade to Windows 2000/XP may encounter problems, and it is vital not to install version 4.0 into Windows 2000 or later; affected users are encouraged to visit the Adobe web site for technical information and patches. Version 4.1.2 is fully
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Adobe discontinued development of ATM Deluxe for Macintosh after Apple moved to Mac OS X. Adobe ceased selling ATM Deluxe in 2005. ATM Deluxe does not work reliably under OS X (even under Classic), however, ATM Light is still helpful to Type 1 font users under Classic.
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Around 2001, with Apple's Mac OS X, support for Type 1 fonts was built into the operating system using ATM Light code contributed by Adobe. ATM for Mac was then no longer necessary for font imaging or printing.
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compatible with Windows 2000 and XP (It will run on XP 64-bit, but because the installer doesn't work it must be first installed on 32-bit XP and then copied over to 64-bit XP).
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on install, but in Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft added "font driver" support to allow ATM to provide Type 1 support (and in theory other font drivers for other types).
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ATM installed on XP may prevent a system from entering standby – the error message indicates keyboard driver needs updating. Uninstalling ATM corrects the issue.
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Type 1 fonts for the computer monitor, and for printing to non-PostScript printers. Mac Type 1 fonts come with screen fonts set to display at certain
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is incompatible with both ATM Light and ATM Deluxe. Windows Vista can use Adobe Type 1 fonts natively, making add-ons like ATM unnecessary.
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Adobe Type Manager was also made available for a select few PC operating systems available during the early 1990s, including
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The latest version of ATM for Windows 3.1 is 3.02. There was no ATM Deluxe for Windows versions prior to 95.
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5.0 and 5.1. This incarnation of ATM, made by LaserTools was named PrimeType in the United States and
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As with ATM Light for Macintosh, Adobe licensed to Microsoft the core code, which was integrated into
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have built-in support for PostScript fonts, eliminating the need for Adobe's 3rd party utility.
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ATM Light is still available for Windows users, but ATM Deluxe is no longer developed or sold.
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Font packages for Windows – Bitstream's FaceLift and Adobe Systems' Adobe Type Manager
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operating system platform, where they managed font display by patching into Windows (
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fonts. The last release was Adobe ATM Light 4.1.2, per Adobe's FTP (at the time).
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elsewhere. An alternative to ATM for WordPerfect 5.1 was infiniType Plus by
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sizes only. In Macintosh operating systems prior to
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Index

Adobe Type Manager Deluxe
Adobe Systems
PostScript
Type 1
operating systems
Windows
MacOS
Apple Macintosh
PostScript
point
Mac OS X
font-management program
Microsoft Windows
3.0
3.1x
95
98
Me
TrueType
Windows 2000
Windows XP
multiple master
Windows Vista
Acrobat Reader
NeXTSTEP
DESQview
OS/2
DOS
WordPerfect
SoftMaker

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