downloading fonts to printer?

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2 total messages Started by D V Henkel-Wallace Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:47

#4108

Author: D V Henkel-Wallace
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:47

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How can I print using fonts not in my postscript printer?

I have a QMS 810.  My NeXT knows about it (it has an entry for it).
But if I try to print a document that uses a font not in the printer,
the printer uses Courier in place of the unknown font.  How do I tell
the system that it needs to download certain fonts to the printer
before they can be used?

Thanks,
d

Re: downloading fonts to printer?

#4129

Author: Paul Verket
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:18

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In article <GUMBY.92Dec23074721@tweedledumb.cygnus.com> gumby@cygnus.com (D V  
Henkel-Wallace) writes:
> How can I print using fonts not in my postscript printer?
> 
> I have a QMS 810.  My NeXT knows about it (it has an entry for it).
> But if I try to print a document that uses a font not in the printer,
> the printer uses Courier in place of the unknown font.  How do I tell
> the system that it needs to download certain fonts to the printer
> before they can be used?

In NS 2.x you need to manually download the font files using "fontloader" or  
Abobe's FontInstaller.app. There's a man page for fontloader and you get  
FontInstaller.app with adobe fonts.

In NS 3.0, the fonts are downloaded automatically before your print job.

Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)

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