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- From: pledge@netcom.com (Alan McLachlan)
- Subject: Re: Uses and Differences Between Type 1 and Type 2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.212651.19732@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov11.185712.16193@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov21.070717.26605@seer.gentoo.com>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:26:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.070717.26605@seer.gentoo.com> ariel@seer.gentoo.com (Cathy Hampton) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.185712.16193@u.washington.edu>
- >yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi) writes:
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- >>Most of these printers have upgraded to Postscript Level 2. Does that mean
- >>it uses Postscript type 2? I've never heard of such an Adobe format. My
- >>previous knowledge was of only Type 1, 3, 4 and 5, but no 2.
- >
- >My printer cartridge is Postscript Level 2, which is an enhanced version of
- >the postscript language itself, not a font format like type 1 or 3 fonts.
- >Yes, your fonts will work fine with postscript level 2 -- in fact, they
- >will probably work much faster and possibly better. I'm enjoying my
- >postscript level 2 system very much. <G>
- >
- >Ariel
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- Type 2 fonts are stroked fonts (to the best of my memory and used to be used
- in the old 47 and prev versions of PS but were replaces when ATM came along
- as its a fill only beast) and not a new type of font for level 2
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