re atm or truetype which to choose in article c tdgt mqq csn org rjn teal csn org wrote csd keele ac uk c m yearsley writes i ve just bought a pc which came with a bundle of lotus stuff including adobe type manager version as a newcomer to windows i m confused about which i should be using atm or truetype if you are going to stay with atm be sure to upgrade to which replaces who knows how old is is as fast as tt and if you disable the small screen fonts atm does better screen rendering at the smaller point sizes not true both type and tt fonts can be of excellent quality and poor quality at any size it all depends on the font s maker and the complexity of the glyphs related to the size and resolution at which they are viewed probably the reason for your opinion experience that tt is inferior is because most tt fonts on the market today have been converted from type outlines to tt either by the font vendor or end users using fontographer or fontmonger instead of the tt fonts being hand hinted to take advantage of the tt hinting language at best these converted tt fonts will be on a par with the type font of its orgin truetype is a much richer and more robust hinting language than type the hinting of diagonals for instance which tt does and type cannot if you check out the windows core fonts times arial courier symbol wingdings you ll see what can be done with tt there are other fonts out there that have been hand hinted and not just converted some of the microsoft tt font pack fonts are hinted very well you can use both tt and atm fonts at the same time if you like atm type fonts tend to be of higher quality and be more complete in terms of foreign characters again not true the characters in a tt or type font depend on the maker if someone converts a type font to tt they ll only get the characters in the font of orgin tt allows for much more flexibility in this area as well you can have thousands of glyphs in a tt font file mac ps windows unicode char set and use the characters appropriate for the particular platform you are running the font on for instance all or our fontpack tt fonts have the mac windows char set in them the metrics of the fonts are such that if the font is brought over to the mac the user will have access to the full mac char set regards a east harmony road bob niland suite internet rjn csn org fort collins co compuserve hope this clears up some of the confusion feel free to contact me if anyone would like more info regards dave glenn program manager microsoft tt font stuff davidgl microsoft com compuserve
