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Article #3937

Re: NeWSprint help

#3937
From: Vidiot
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 06:31
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In article <1acrjhINNdeh@network.ucsd.edu> dmb@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Doug Brownell) writes:
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<I have a dumb question.  I have a number of Type 1 fonts
<which won't print on our Sparc-printers, generating the error
<message 'command "eexec" undefined'.  The message is somewhat
<more complicated than that, but I'll refrain from posting
<more unless asked.  Is this due to an older version of NeWS,
<or is it intrinsic to Openwin?  The error page indicated I'm
<using NeWSprint 1.0 fcs, Openwin 2, NeWSprint interpreter
<version 2.1 .  I'd really like to be able to use these fonts!

Yep, you need to upgrade to NeWSprint 2.0.  Version 1 doesn't work with
downloaded fonts, version 2 does.  I know, I've downloaded the Crillee font
to the SPARCprinter to use with my ST:TNG Program Guide.
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: NeWSprint help
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Date: 2 Oct 92 06:31:29 GMT
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