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Article #1292Re: The Printer Had A Hard Disk
From: Gerry Lachac
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1989 15:10
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1989 15:10
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In article <1014@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> aem@Mthvax.CS.Miami.Edu writes: > >I suspect that it's useful for very very few people to have a hard >disk for fonts. > Actually this is very far from being true. A hard disk is extremely useful for a Postscript printer. Remember, every time you print something, the printer has to construct a "bitmap" from the font outline. This sucks up processor time. With a hard disk, you can build all the bitmaps that you use, and instead of constructing them each time, you fetch them from the disk. This really speeds things up. Don Lancaster had a good article in an old Computer Shopper about this. -- uunet!dialogic!gerry | "Even a dead plant turns | Dialogic Corporation OR | over a new leaf | 300 Littleton Rd gerry@dialogic.UUCP | when the wind blows." | Parsippany, NJ 07054 | | (201)334-8450
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!dialogic!gerry From: gerry@dialogic.UUCP (Gerry Lachac) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: The Printer Had A Hard Disk Message-ID: <988@dialogic.UUCP> Date: 9 Nov 89 15:10:29 GMT References: <8911081356.AA26268@terra.oscs.montana.edu> <1014@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> Reply-To: gerry@dialogic.UUCP (Gerry Lachac) Organization: Dialogic Corp., Parsippany, NJ Lines: 20