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In article <1551@utastro.UUCP>, anita@utastro.UUCP (Anita Cochran) writes:
... I use the Laserwriter with builtin
> fonts (4 I believe) that those fonts, in a variety of sizes, is all
> you can really get.  Now people are talking about using their own fonts
> and downloading them.  What really does happen?  Does TeX use the hardwired
> fonts, its own, some combination of each, what?  If it helps the discussion
> any, we use dvi2ps to spool the stuff off to the laserwriter.

You were misinformed.  Compare the output of dvi2ps with output from
the Laserwriter using it's builtin font's (Use Adobe's Enscript or equiv,
write your own postscript, or put the printer in Diablo 630 mode)

You'll notice that dvi2ps's output is generally not quite as sharp as
output using the Laser-writer's output.  Dvi2ps is downloading it's own
fonts and using them.  Dvi2ps in fact currently doesn't use the builtin
fonts (anyone working on this?)

ArborText's dvips does have the capability to use the builtin fonts and
the output is sharper, especially with very large characters.  The current
problem with the builtin fonts is that kerning etc, doesn't seem as precise
as when you download a font.  

Dvips is a much nice program than dvi2ps and a lot more expensive.
If you can afford to spend $500, it's well worth it.  

But, dvips isn't provided for that many machines (vax{vms,unix},sun,apollo,etc)
and we're forced to use dvi2ps on some of our machines.  We keep running
into dvi2ps output occasionally trashing our Laserwriter+'s.  The same output
will trash the printer one time and work fine the next.  (weird) 
We get %[Error Offending command: Limitcheck]% (something like that anyhow)
Has anyone run into this and fixed it?


-Steve


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