CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

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System applications, such as GNU Emacs (version 20 or greater), provide their own

CJKV-capable windows.

Adobe Type Manager—ATM

In 1989, Adobe Systems developed a font-rendering program called Adobe Type Manager

(ATM) for Mac OS, which could be thought of as the font-rendering soware used in a

PostScript interpreter, but instead resided on the computer (oen called the host), which

allowed users to eectively install printer fonts on the computer and use them with ATM

for high-quality computer monitor output. A version for Windows was released in 1990.

As mentioned previously, ATM was also used for printing to printers on which the fonts

are not resident. ATM worked with non-PostScript printers, too. In many ways, it was

revolutionary and was developed in response to TrueType. Many people claimed that the

best thing that happened to PostScript was TrueType, because it encouraged the develop-

ment of ATM, eectively putting them at the same level.

e very rst versions of ATM supported only single-byte PostScript fonts, but late in 1991,

Adobe Systems released ATM-J, the Japanese version of ATM. is soware package was

bundled with two PostScript Japanese fonts, Morisawa’s Ryumin-Light and GothicBBB-

Medium, which the user installed onto their computer. ATM, although not advertised,

included full CJKV font support.

If the font was resident on both ...