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- From: verket@venice.sedd.trw.com (Paul Verket)
- Subject: Re: downloading fonts to printer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.061856.7991@venice.sedd.trw.com>
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- Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
- References: <GUMBY.92Dec23074721@tweedledumb.cygnus.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:18:56 GMT
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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)
-