Adobe Type Manager 4.5 Deluxe Upgrade Includes Type Reunion Deluxe 2.5 [Old Version]

by Adobe

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00002S5VI
• Item model number: 17150051
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,650 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Adobe Type Manager Deluxe lets you organize your Type 1 and TrueType fonts to suit the way you work. In seconds, you can activate only the fonts or font sets you need, then deactivate them when you've finished. From adding fonts and creating custom sets to getting crisp, clean output from any printer, Adobe Type Manager Deluxe is packed with powerful features that make font management fast and easy and that leave you free to concentrate on content.

MacAddict

Just as pack rats love to acquire countless and often useless items they'll hold onto forever, Mac users have a knack for acquiring fonts and sets of fonts - lots of them. We doubt you'll find less than 30 fonts on anyone's Mac. The problem? Each font uses RAM and slows down applications. Moreover, the majority of fonts are rarely used. Enter Adobe's new version of Type Manager, known as ATM. ATM Deluxe 4.5 consists of a control panel and an application to manage your fonts. Creating font sets is as easy as clicking a button and dragging fonts to the resulting folder in ATM's Set & Fonts view. Adding fonts to ATM 4.5 is easy. Just leave the standard fonts (Monaco, Times, Chicago, and so forth) in your System Folder's Fonts folder, and move your extra fonts to another folder on the same drive. Drag your folder with the extra fonts to ATM's window, then use ATM's Verify and Report features to weed out and replace any damaged, conflicting, or duplicate fonts. Finally, create as many sets as you like that contain whichever fonts you like.

Power users will find ATM's Verify and Report features quite useful. Users can also print font samples, or indexes, which greatly aid in seeing how fonts will look on paper. Also, pros will find ATM's font activation, either globally or by application, a quick and easy way to use the fonts they want in the applications they choose. Font smoothing and control over multiple master font instances are also available.

Extras included with ATM Deluxe 4.5 include 15 Adobe fonts, Adobe's PostScript Printer Driver, and Type Reunion Deluxe 2.5. We hesitate to recommend installing Type Reunion Deluxe, however, after reading numerous online reports of incompatibilities with other applications.

Also on the negative side, ATM 4.5 suffers from a few annoying interface quirks. For example, pressing Page Down in the Fonts window with no fonts selected takes users to the end of the font list, not one screen down. Second, to manually activate or deactivate fonts you have to use a pair of On and Off buttons, instead of a more intuitive check box system as in Extensis's Suitcase 8. Finally, the Preferences appear in the File menu, not the Edit menu where they belong. Gee, is ATM 4.5 a Windows product, too?

If you're an inveterate Adobe fan, then ATM Deluxe 4.5 is a solid font management product, but we can't recommend it over Extensis's recently released Suitcase 8 (Reviews, Sept/99, p68). - Erik J. Barzeski

good news : Speeds general application usage. Identifies problems with fonts. Intuitive font management.

bad news : Odd interface. Control panel sucks up 2MB of RAM.

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