Re: Printing to Postscript File

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From: Paul Lucas
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:10

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In <37229@cbmvax.commodore.com> kominetz@cbmvax.commodore.com (John Kominetz - CATS) writes:

>I would like to print documents in MSWorks 3.0 to a postscript file.
>The Laserwriter printer driver allows you to do this with an option
>at print-time, but the file for a 1 page document is in excess of 
>700K.  Since this document was entirely text, I assume that it is 
>creating bitmaps of the font (Times) and saving the bitmap rather 
>that the straight text with formatting/font commands.

>My question is this:  How can I create a postscript file that uses
>text/font/formatting information rather than bitmaps?  (The system
>is a Mac LCII running 7.0.1, and there is no printer attached.)
>Thanks in advance.

	It's the TrueType software and fonts that cause the file-size
	explosion; get PSTrimmer from your favorite archive site.
-- 
	- Paul J. Lucas				University of Illinois	
	  AT&T Bell Laboratories		at Urbana-Champaign
	  Naperville, IL			pjl@cs.uiuc.edu

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