Comments on: Font Remix Tools (RMX) and Multiple Master Fonts in type design http://www.thomasphinney.com/2010/03/font-remix-tools-rmx-and-multiple-master-fonts-in-type-design/ the Phinney-us Blog on Typography & Text Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bill Troop http://www.thomasphinney.com/2010/03/font-remix-tools-rmx-and-multiple-master-fonts-in-type-design/comment-page-1/#comment-1305 Bill Troop Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:46:07 +0000 http://www.thomasphinney.com/?p=458#comment-1305 Thomas, I wouldn't describe getting ATM to work on Vista as a hack - - you just turn off UAC once, and that's it. On Windows 7, ATM seems to install by default. You have to ratchet UAC down or off to install a lot of other programs on Windows 7 -- like Eudora, for example. I don't call that a hack, and I don't think Microsoft does, either. The one issue I know of that arises is that you may have to give write permissions to some ATM .dat file -- it would be great if you could elucidate that procedure. <em>[Well, besides turning off UAC, which some people are loathe to do... if you're running 64-bit Vista you have to actually install ATM on another machine and copy the installed program and associated files over to your 64-bit Vista machine, which definitely starts to feel hacky to me. If things are better on Windows 7, that's great, but I gather the 64-bit version - T]</em> Thomas, I wouldn’t describe getting ATM to work on Vista as a hack – - you just turn off UAC once, and that’s it. On Windows 7, ATM seems to install by default. You have to ratchet UAC down or off to install a lot of other programs on Windows 7 — like Eudora, for example. I don’t call that a hack, and I don’t think Microsoft does, either.

The one issue I know of that arises is that you may have to give write permissions to some ATM .dat file — it would be great if you could elucidate that procedure.

[Well, besides turning off UAC, which some people are loathe to do... if you're running 64-bit Vista you have to actually install ATM on another machine and copy the installed program and associated files over to your 64-bit Vista machine, which definitely starts to feel hacky to me. If things are better on Windows 7, that's great, but I gather the 64-bit version - T]

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