Using Adobe Type Manager with Aldus PageMaker

I've been seeing the same questions and problems repeated 
over and over on various Compuserve forums, so I've put 
together a Q&A sheet for ATM and Pagemaker.

First off, ATM only works with Type 1 PostScript fonts. 
These font files usually have a PFB (Printer Font Binary) 
extension. ATM does not work with Type 3 PostScript fonts 
(which usually have a PFA extension). Installing an 
incompatible font can wreak havoc on your work. 
Unfortunately, the ATM font installation does not check to 
see if a font is compatible or not.

Now for the questions:

Q. I've installed Adobe Type1 fonts through the ATM 
Control Panel. They show up fine on the screen and are 
listed in PageMaker's typeface list, but I only get 
Courier from the printer. What's wrong?

A. ATM's Control Panel installs the font into the ATM.INI 
and the WIN.INI files. However, it enters the font 
information in the WIN.INI as a RESIDENT FONT (that is, a 
font in ROM, already downloaded to the printer's RAM, or 
installed on the printer's hard drive). You will need to 
make a backup of your WIN.INI file, and then edit the 
WIN.INI file to mark the font as NON-RESIDENT so that 
Windows will download the font to the printer when it is 
needed.

After making a backup of the WIN.INI file, open the file 
up for editing in an ASCII editor (Notepad or Sysedit will 
work fine). Look for a section that is headed:

[PostScript,LPT1]

(Note: the printer port might be different, i.e. COM2, 
LPT2, COM1, FILE)

Under that heading look for lines like these:

softfont1=c:\psfonts\pfm\fontname.PFM
softfont2=c:\psfonts\pfm\fontnam2.PFM
  etc.

These are the lines tell Windows what fonts are available, 
and where to find the spacing information for them. As 
they appear, they make Windows assume that the fonts are 
resident in the printer. You need to add the path to the 
PFB files to the above lines to make Windows download the 
fonts:

 
softfont1=c:\psfonts\pfm\fontname.PFM,c:\psfonts\fontname.
PFB
softfont2=c:\psfonts\pfm\fontnam2.PFM,c:\psfonts\fontnam2.
PFB
  etc.

Notice the comma and the path to the PFB file. The above 
assumes that the fonts are in the default directories for 
ATM. If you are using different directories you will need 
to substitute them for the C:\PSFONTS\PFM and the 
C:\PSFONTS directories.

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Q. I've installed my PostScript fonts through ATM's 
Control Panel, but they do not appear in PageMaker's 
typeface list, and I don't even see the fonts listed in 
the WIN.INI file.

A. Are you using one of the standard printer ports (LPT1, 
COM2, LPT1.OS2, etc.)? Or are you possibly printing to 
LPT1.PRN instead?  ATM is aware of the standard printer 
ports in Windows, but is not aware of LPT1.PRN or 
LPT2.PRN. If it encounters the PRN ports it does not make 
any modification to the WIN.INI file.

There are a couple of ways to fix this, neither of which 
is very pretty. You can use Windows' Control Panel, 
Printer Setup to change printer ports to a standard port 
and then re-install the fonts. Or, you can manually edit 
the win.ini file to enter the font information.

If you choose to manually enter the information, please 
take a look at the FONTS.ZIP file in the Compuserve 
Desktop Publishing Forum (GO DTPFORUM) for information.

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Q. I've installed my PostScript fonts through ATM's 
Control Panel. The fonts show up in PageMaker's list of 
typefaces, and they print fine. However, only small size 
screen fonts seem to appear in Pagemaker. If I use a large 
font, or I zoom in on the page I only see small figures.

A. PageMaker assumes that you only have a limited 
selection of screen font sizes. You need to make a change 
to the Preferences settings in the Edit menu in Pagemaker.

In order for the changes you make to become the default 
settings in Pagemaker, you need to close any document you 
may be working on so that you are at a blank gray screen. 
Then click on Edit and then click on Preferences. Change 
the values for "Stretch text above" and "Vector text 
above."  I have them each set at 400 pixels. Then click on 
OK.

This will set these values as the defaults for new 
documents. You will need to go back and change them for 
any old documents that you want to use with ATM.

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Q. Are there any public domain or shareware PS Type1 fonts 
that will work with ATM and Pagemaker?

A. Yes. There are a few examples in Library 9 of the 
DTPFORUM on Compuserve (check the file's description for 
mention of ATM compatibility). Examples are Saint Frances, 
Architect, Black Chancery, Postcrypt and Caligula.