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non-NeXT Printer

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From: Zhong-Lin Lu
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 00:42
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We have just bought a NeXTstation (Turbo color) and installed NeXTStep 3.0
on it. But we don't have a NeXT printer. Instead, we have an Apple  
LaserWriter attached to a SUN Sparc 2 station. I made arrangements so
that we can have access to the printer through network.

Then someone gave me a lot of fonts and I can display them on my NeXT 
console. But when I tried to print them, I can't----even if I save the
screen output into normal postscript file. I realized that the printer
I have is a postscript printer but it doesn't have enough memory to load
in all the fonts. That seems to be the problem.

What I don't understand is that, principly, the postscript files can be
independent of any font file once it has been created in one place, so
is there anyway that I can print those fancy fonts out on a non-NeXT  
postscript printer without bothering with loading all these fonts into
my printer.

I will appreciate your help.


Zhong-Lin Lu
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