RE: FM7 on Windows XP: more display problems

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

ATM would do absolutely nothing to the Symbol.TTF font at all
unless you specifically tried deleting it via ATM.

        - Dov


At 3/18/2003 12:05 PM, Roger Jones wrote:
>At 12:33 18/03/2003 -0700, Fred Ridder wrote:
>>Unless I am very much mistaken, in Windows XP (and in 2000, also)
>>the onscreen display of PostScript Type 1 fonts is handled by the
>>operating system rather than by ATM. ATM is no longer a required
>>part of the setup to use Type 1 fonts. If you use it at all, it is only
>>used as an alternative to the Windows Fonts Control Panel for font
>>installation and management. Once you have installed the fonts,
>>ATM is out of the picture. So if you don't like the on-screen display,
>>I think it's Microsoft's fault. And note that Symbol is a special case
>>because it is the one font that needs to be installed on the system
>>in TrueType form even if you are using the PostScript version of it.
>
>Thanks, Fred and Dov, for swift responses. I have not consciously deleted the TTF Symbol file, but it is not listed in c:\Windows\Fonts; perhaps I'd better try and find it on the system CD. Would ATM Lite have overwritten it, perhaps?
>
>And, curiously, Symbol displays fine in Eudora 5.2, as pink boxes in InDesign 2, fine in Illustrator 10, fine in Word and also in Excel -- but poorly in FrameMaker.
>
>All the best
>
>Roger Jones, Terra Publishing -- Booth 3, EGS/AGU/EGU in Nice
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