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Article #28100Re: Laserwriter Question (follow up)
From: Rick Klaus
Date: Fri, 13 May 1988 20:25
Date: Fri, 13 May 1988 20:25
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The laserwriter has a set of fonts that are internally stored as postscript. These include most of the fonts that you use most of the time, e.g. Times, Helv., Courier, etc. These are listed in the manual. Font substitution only applies to the fonts that were mentioned in previous postings (also listed in the LW manual). Any others MUST be downloaded from the MAC for the LW to use them. If a document uses a font that is not in the LW (and not one of the substituted fonts), the MAC will look for a screen (bitmap) version to download. Its first choice is a font that is 4 times as large as the screen point size since this gives the best quality on the LW. However, if it can't find this large of a size it will use a smaller font that is scaled up, thus the print that looks like a screen dump. The MAC will not download the font more than once for the document unless it has to use the extra memory for another font or for the bitmap of the page. This could make the download appear random... page 1 - uses MYFONT1, downloads to LW page 2 - uses MYFONT1, doesn't download again page 3 - uses MYFONT2, replaces MYFONT1 in memory page 4 - uses MYFONT1 again, requires another download ...etc... If the objection you are having is the print quality, then you need to either only use the LW internal fonts, or get large scale (4x) versions of the fonts that you are using. Hope this is helpful Rick Klaus hplabs!hpvcla!rickk
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