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Re: LaserWriter II fonts -- HELP

#7879
From: jim sullivan
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1989 14:30
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In article <1058@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> bi38@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU (Macbeth Ylr) writes:
>I have a LaserWriter II (nt).  I notice in the manual there are
>several fonts such as ITC Zapf Chancery, etc.  I would like to 
>access them from a postscript program.  What are they really called?
>I try :
>/ITC-Zapf-Chancery findfont
>but just end up with the default.
>
>Anyone out there know what I'm doing wrong or what the real names
>of these fonts are for postscript

	Here is a postscript routine to print all the font
	names in your printer.  Just send it directly to your
	printer.

--------------------------- cut here ---------------------------
%!
%% Get all font names in the printer and print them out.

/Helvetica findfont 10 scalefont setfont
/fontname 30 string def
50 750 translate
FontDirectory  {0 0 moveto pop
		fontname cvs show
		0 -10 translate} forall
showpage
--------------------------- cut here -----------------------------

	This of course assumes that your printer has the
	font Helvetica, which all postscript printers I know
	of have.  It also assumes that the font names are
	less than thirty characters in length.  Good Luck...

					Jim
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From: jim@nih-csl.UUCP (jim sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: LaserWriter II fonts -- HELP
Message-ID: <895@nih-csl.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 89 14:30:05 GMT
References: <1058@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU>
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Organization: NIH-CSL, Bethesda, MD
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