non-NeXT Printer

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3 total messages Started by Zhong-Lin Lu Thu, 29 Oct 1992 00:42

#18

Author: 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

Re: non-NeXT Printer

#21

Author: Matt Hopkins
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 05:29

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In article <2AEF3381.12719@news.service.uci.edu> zhonglin@next1.ss.uci.edu  
(Zhong-Lin Lu) writes:
> [problems printing on non-NeXT printer]
> 
> Zhong-Lin Lu

I tried to reply to you but my mail bounced.  If you can supply me with a  
vaild e-mail address (preferably NeXTMail-able) I believe I can help you.

Matt

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Re: non-NeXT Printer

#71

Author: Jiro Nakamura
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 22:05

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In article <2AEF3381.12719@news.service.uci.edu> zhonglin@next1.ss.uci.edu (Zhong-Lin Lu) writes:
>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.
>

While PostScript files are printer independent, they do depend on fonts
being loaded onto the printer (either separately or bundled in with
the PostScript file). Is there any way to print a file without downloading
the files? The simple answer is: NO.

The best thing might be to connect the Apple LaserWriter to the NeXT and
let the Suns network onto it. That way, the NeXT will automagically
download the fonts you use onto it (while the Suns don't have that
feature).

The complex answer to the above question is: YES, you could create outline
descriptions of your entire page's fonts and execute the PS output as
being one giant picture, but this would make the entire page explosively
large, larger than downloading the fonts + page description.

 - Jiro Nakamura
   Tech Editor / NeXTwatch

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