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Article #14287Re: LaserWriter II fonts
From: Mark Andrews
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1987 02:13
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1987 02:13
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In article <11954@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>I have a related question. What are the font names for all of these in
>Postscript? I can't find that information anywhere (the adobe books, the
>laserwriter manual, the manhattan phone book...). If I want to use Zapf
>Chancery in a Postscript program, I need to be able to define the font, but
>there seems to be no documentation on what it is. Of course, I could just
>snarf a Postscript program from something like Word output, but the
>documentation should really sve me this hassle...
>
>chuq
>
>Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM
>
>It's only a model...
The following bit of postscript will produce the desired
response direct to the printer tray. (This should work on a
LaserWriter, and does work on a LaserWriter Plus).
/Courier findfont 10 scalefont setfont
/x 50 def /y 700 def
/nl { x /y y 14 sub def y moveto
/Courier findfont 10 scalefont setfont } def
/buf 80 string def
200 750 moveto
statusdict /product get show
( rev. ) show
statusdict /revision get buf cvs show
( Fonts ) show
x y moveto
FontDirectory
{
exch dup
buf cvs show
exch 230 y moveto
( ------ ) show
/FontInfo get /FullName get buf cvs show
findfont 10 scalefont setfont
500 y moveto (ABCDE) show
nl
} forall
showpage
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!munnari!natmlab!marka From: marka@natmlab.dms.oz (Mark Andrews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: LaserWriter II fonts Message-ID: <1272@natmlab.dms.oz> Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 21:13:48 EST Article-I.D.: natmlab.1272 Posted: Tue Jan 27 21:13:48 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Feb-87 22:38:39 EST References: <919@uwmacc.UUCP> <397@apple.UUCP> <11954@sun.uucp> Reply-To: marka@natmlab.UUCP (Mark Andrews) Organization: CSIRO Maths and Stats & Applied Physics, Sydney, Australia Lines: 43 Keywords: plead, whine, beg