Re: [Freetype] ATM Light (was Re: PS Type1 vs. TrueType)

[Vadim Plessky]

On Saturday 14 July 2001 22:59, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
|   At 5:46 PM +0000 7/13/01, Vadim Plessky wrote:
|   >On Friday 13 July 2001 11:30, David Turner wrote:
|   >|   Actually, ATM is now distributed as a free plug-in on Windows and
|   >| Mac. It has also been integrated within Windows 2000, Me and XP I
|   >| believe, so these OSes already support Type 1 fonts natively !!
|   >
|   >checked Adobe site. I see: "get Acrobat reader", "get Acrobat eBook
|   > reader", "download SVG viewer", "download Atmosphere". Obviously, no
|   > link to "download ATM"..
|
|       You weren't looking hard enough ;).
|
|       ATM Light (the free version that ONLY does Type 1 rendering
|   on OS platforms that don't include it natively, but doesn't have the
|   font management features of it's commercial cousin ATM Deluxe) can be
|   found at <http://www.adobe.com/products/atmlight/main.html>.

Thanks for the link!
Adobe really made its best to hide it :-))

|
|   >  And no links to dwonload for free "Miriad" or "Minion" fonts.. Have I
|   >missed something?
|
|       In that case, no!  Adobe makes some of their fonts free, but
|   I don't believe these are - at least not the Cyrillic versions that
|   it sounds like you want.

I am not aware of Cyrillic version of any Adobe fonts - neither 
Helvetica/Times nor Miriad/Minion.
And for sure, even if Adobe has some *free* fonts, they are not Cyrillic :((
Some people/companies were developing Cyrillic versions of Times/Helvetica 
here, but it has nothing to do with Adobe.
By the way, it's the major reason why ATM has no presence here (in Russia)
(another reason is, of course, why somebody should want to install ATM and 
Adobe PS fonts if he/she already has Arial and Times New Roman TTF?)

|
|   >Yes, ATM is integrated into Windows 2000 and XP (don't know Me),
|
|       Just to be picky, ATM is NOT integrated into those OS's - but
|   they do include native Type 1 rendering.

ok, thanks for correction :)
|
|   Leonard

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