More RiscOS 3 fonts to PostScript...

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3 total messages Started by Ug! Tue, 06 Oct 1992 04:14

#483

Author: Ug!
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 04:14

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Hi folks!  Another query about font downloading in RiscOS 3.1...

Okay - so the printer driver dowloads fonts now, right?  Right...

Unmap Homerton.  Print file using Homerton in Impression 2.16.  Sure 'nuff,
it downloads the font (in this case, just another remapping to Helvetica!).

Fine, so lets download...  Optima!  and Garamond!  Take a look at the
PostScript it produces (I've never seen a font download after all).  Sure
'nuff, there are the comments where the font download goes, with *nothing*
between them!  Aaaaarrrrrrgggghhhh!

Hokay, calm down.  Go get the original Type-1's and AFMs, and convert them,
assuming that this will keep enough information to be able to download them,
once they have been converted.

My question is:  what do I have to do to get the printer driver to download
RiscOS 2 fonts for the duration of the job?  Can it be donw?  Or do I have
to go and hunt down all the Type-1 equivalents?
								Ug!

Re: More RiscOS 3 fonts to PostScript...

#485

Author: Philip Colmer
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 07:59

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In article <1992Oct6.171413.11256@waikato.ac.nz> bwc@waikato.ac.nz (Ug!) writes:

> [problems with font downloading deleted]

 Well, it worked for me using Impression 2.17, so it *may* be that
2.16 doesn't support the new printer driver call.

 You shouldn't need to do ANYTHING with your fonts once you've got
cooperative software.

 Sorry I can't be more helpful ... try asking CC for version 2.17.

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Re: More RiscOS 3 fonts to PostScript...

#488

Author: Ug!
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 03:16

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>Philip Colmer writes:
>  You shouldn't need to do ANYTHING with your fonts once you've got
> cooperative software.

Really?  Then how come !Draw doesn't download the fonts?!!!

Anyway, I ported the orginal Type-1 font, and clicked on the 'Keep PostScript'
box - now it downloads the PostScript Type-1 file which is stored in the same
place as the metrics and outlines.  Neat!  (except the size of the PostScript
printouts has jumped is size... you win some, you lose some...)

So the moral of the story seems to me to be: if there's a Type-1 stored with
the font, it will be downloaded, otherwise, it won't.

Now, how many users have access to the original Type-1's?
								Ug!

P.S.  The Type-1 converter doesn't work on all Type-1 fonts.  Bummer.

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