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Article #5164Re: Getting a Sample of Each Font on AppleLaser Wr. II.
From: phys59
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 23:14
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 23:14
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In article <16763@chopin.udel.edu>, jeremym@chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes:
> Well.. here's the scanario:
>
> I have an Amiga 2000 at home running the word processor
> Excellence!. After typing up a documment, I print
> the file to a disk file with the postscript lang
> and then upload it to our sun-workstation network.
>
> After printing it, I notice that the fonts it has in
> ROM come out 5 billion times nicer than the Amiga
> fonts that need translation into ps.
>
> How can I get my Laserwriter (through the network)
> to print out a sample of EVERY font it knows in ROM
> and a few characters to see all the typestyles I
> can play with?
>
> Please reply thru here or mail and I appreciate your time.
>
> -jer
>
> --
> E Pluribus // Contacts: jeremym@brahms.udel.edu or jeremym@chopin.udel.edu or
> Unix // jeremym@freezer.acs.udel.edu -amiga clasic 2000-
> \\ // --->Monitor of comp.sys.amiga.emulations<---
> \X/ 2001 Dalmations - My stars, its full of dogs...
Try sending it this:
initmatrix FontDirectory {pop dup findfont 12 scalefont setfont 50 string cvs
0 0 moveto show 0 15 translate} forall showpage
That little fragment of code should print out an unsorted list of up to 48
fonts. With suitable modification, I suppose it could do more (That is left as
an exercise to the reader).
It works on POST version 1.5 for the Amiga, I haven't tested it on a
LaserWriter.
Ron Parker, phys59@jetson.uh.edu
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