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Blaise, Adobe Type Manager is a startup application (INIT) and cdev. It is copied into the System Folder, and is controlled in the Control Panel. It modifies the system to intercept font calls made by applications. When it does this, it first looks to see if there is an existing screen font in that size; if there is, it is used. If there is no screen font, ATM looks to see if there is a corresponding outline (printer) font in the System Folder. If there is, the outline is rasterized into a screen font in the appropriate size. If there is not, the call is passed back to the system, and an existing screen font is scaled in the usual way. ATM allows you to set up a portion of memory as a font cache, which speeds the repetitive drawing of characters. It also allows people who own QuickDraw printers to get much better output of type, since it can also rasterize type in the size required by each printer. ^Steve^