Adobe Type Manager

I'm trying to free up some space on my hard drive and am looking for programs that I don't need/use. I'm not even sure when I installed Adobe type manager or where it came from. Can I uninstall without major problems to my system? I am running windows ME.
By the way, exactly what does the type manager do? I've never used it. Thanks a lot.

 

Hi!

Adobe Type Manager (a/k/a ATM) is installed (I believe) with PageMaker and perhaps with Illustrator and/or Photoshop. If you don't have any of these programs installed, I have reason to believe you can safely uninstall ATM.

ATM provides post-script fonts for use (primarily) with Adobe and other graphics programs, as opposed to the Microsoft-type TrueType fonts. Though many programs are capable of using either/both. TrueTypes have a file extension of ttf, while ATMs have an fon file extension for use, and then another extension (I forget) for viewing on-screen. Anyway, if you uninstall ATM, you might want to make sure you delete the fonts too by searching for fon files. You'll find those other files in the same directory. Same name, different extension.

Hope this helps.