Adobe Type Manager was designed to provide scalable fonts on early Mac and Windows 3.0 systems that did not provide similar functionality natively. ATM is required by a number of graphics application originally designed to work in these environments. ATM is packaged as a "lite" installable runtime. Later releases offer a "Deluxe" version with extra font management abilities. Other OSes including NeXTSTEP, DESQview, and OS/2 come with ATM functionality built-in.
ATM 4.x adds native support for Windows 9x and NT, and drops support for Windows 3.1. It will run under Windows 2000/XP, but Vista and later integrate Adobe Type 1 font support.
Note: There are known bugs when upgrading from ATM 4.0 to 4.1.x on Windows. If you need ATM under Windows 9x, NT or later you should install 4.1.2, or a later Deluxe version.
The final versions of the "lite" runtime version (4.1.2 for Win 9x/NT, and 4.5.2 for Mac) were downloadable from Adobe's FTP site.
Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
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Adobe Type Manager 4.0 | 4.0 | English | 4.67MB | 2 | |
Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.0 for Mac (CD) | 4.0 for Mac | English | 156.75MB | 0 | |
Adobe Type Manager Deluxe 4.1 | 4.1 | English | 12.05MB | 3 |