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Greetings once again,

My recent entry into the world of PostScript is brought about by trying to 
redesign 2 old reports so that more information will fit on a page.  Right now, 
a FORTRAN program generates one report portrait while System 1032 (a database
package) generates the other landscape.  These reports can get quite large and
they are printed on a public printer connected to the VAX (normally, a Kodak
1492). 

My questions are: 
1) Since these reports deal with fixed-width fonts, and have right justified
   numbers (and/or text) in columns, is there a reasonable approach to convert-
   ing these to PostScript without quadrupling the size of the resulting files?
   Keep in mind I'm a real novice here. 
2) Are there any commonly available fixed-width fonts other than Courier?  The
   normal font that the Kodak gives (with non-PostScript files) is pretty good
   but the Courier stuff looks kind of lame to me.
3) Is there a procedure I can use to ask the Kodak printer to dump the names 
   and characteristics of all of it's fonts?

Thanx again.
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