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In article <114037@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) writes:
>>In article <4830@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, heberlei@iris.ucdavis.edu (Todd) writes:
>>> WHATS THE DEAL WITH THE GENEVA FONT?  IF ITS THE MAC
>>> DEFAULT, SHOULDN'T THE LASER PRINTERS SUPPORT IT?
>In article <8089@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>>No, the LaserWriters do not support Geneva because it exists in bit map
>>form only.
>Sorry, Michael, you didn't answer Todd's question.  He asked whether the
>laser printers SHOULD support the default fonts.  The correct answer is,
>yes, of course they should; or at least Apple should release PostScript
>versions of them.  Failure to do so creates problems for users (like Todd).

I've always thought that Apple's support for printing Geneva and other
standard bitmap fonts to the LaserWriter was above and beyond the call of
duty.  When you turn on "Font substitution" in the LaserWriter's Page
Setup dialog box (it is on by default), three common bitmap fonts are
translated into PostScript fonts for you: Geneva is rendered as Helvetica,
New York is rendered as Times, and Monaco is rendered as Courier.  This
means that even if you write your document on a machine that does not have
these PostScript fonts in its System, they will print out nice and smooth.

It's true that for OTHER bitmap fonts, the print driver is unable to
convert the font to a PostScript font for you, but I don't think that's
unreasonable.

What you really need to do is note which fonts are laser fonts and which
are not.  The original LaserWriter made it easy; it came with four font
families built in: Times, Helvetica, Courier, Symbol.  The LaserWriter
Plus, and the LaserWriter II NT and NTX come with eleven font families
built in: Avant Garde, Bookman, Courier, Helvetica, N Helvetica Narrow,
New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, Symbol, Times, Zapf Chancery, and
Zapf Dingbats.  Unless you have specially purchased other PostScript
fonts, whether from Adobe, Bitstream, CG, Casady, or whoever, then ONLY
these fonts are laser fonts and will print in high quality on the laser
printer.  Other fonts are most likely BITMAP ONLY, and will print as
patterns of dots.

Michael already did a good job of explaining the differences between
the bitmap and PostScript fonts, so I won't go into that. :-)

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