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Article #6303Re: how to download an Adobe font with UNIX
From: Paul D. Selig
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 19:41
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 19:41
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In article <9990@discus.technion.ac.il> dberry@ (Daniel M. Berry) writes:
>We licensed a copy of an Adobe font... sonata specifically
>We were given a choice of PC or Mac format, and chose PC format
>because we have PC's here but no Mac's. However the PC's are NOT
>connected to any of the printers.. They're all connected to Unix machines,
>so that we use lpr to send PostScript files to the printers.
>lpr refused to send the so______.pfb file because it began with something
>binary and not ascii..
Dan,
The postscript fonts you received are in a binary format which, as
you found out, cannot be transferred directly to the postscript printer.
You are in luck, though, since you ordered the IBM version of the font. On
the other disks that came with the font, you will find a utility called
"sendps", which will translate the font into a usable ASCII format that
lpr will accept. You will need to run sendps on each font you want to
convert, redirect the output to a file, and transfer that file to the
unix host.
Hope this helps.....
Paul
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!udecc.engr.udayton.edu!udcps3!selig From: selig@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (Paul D. Selig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: how to download an Adobe font with UNIX Message-ID: <1991Jun13.194147.21808@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu> Date: 13 Jun 91 19:41:47 GMT References: <9990@discus.technion.ac.il> Organization: University of Dayton Computer Science Deptartment Lines: 29