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1 total messages Started by Jonathan Monsarrat Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:36
Problems printing Encapusulated PostScript files
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Author: Jonathan Monsarrat
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:36
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> The specific parts that get altered are these carat (^) symbols
> that appear over other math symbols.  In the laser printout, the
> carat symbols have been turned into larger V's with serifs.

I ran into this problem myself recently.

When you use LaTeX it creates fonts from bitmaps and includes them
in the PostScript file directly.

When you use MacDraw or something, if you include text in the picture
then it will generally NOT do this. Instead it will use a PostScript
font. So if you select "GaramondBoldItalic" it will put a reference
to that font in the EPSF file.

But, what if your printer doesn't happen to have "GaramondBoldItalic" font?

GhostScript still runs it properly because you probably have the font
on-line and it knows where to look.

Your printer is probably substituting a different font, which is nice
I guess instead of just crashing with an error like some printers do.

I suggest using MacDraw and changing the text in your diagram to
something really normal and standard like Times-Roman.

Let us know if it works! Maybe I'm wrong on all this.

-Jon
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