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From: taob@generic.UUCP (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: PostScript font downloader
Message-ID: <88@generic.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 92 21:35:55 GMT
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Reply-To: taob@generic.UUCP (Brian Tao)
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philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes...
>
>Read the recent issues of GS+ on printing. Pointless+Truetype+ Postscript
>LaserWriter driver to the LaserWriter does yield much better results. It
>does on mine, and I simply followed GS+'s advice.

    Yep, Terry summarized it up on CRS and I'll forward it to Robin Cooke
(the lucky guy with a LaserWriter IINT on his GS) on LOGIC.

    Just to quickly summarize for those who don't know about the article:
If you manually send a 4x bitmap font to the printer, the printer will
find it and scale it down to 300 dpi.  Let's say you're typing up a
document that uses Helvetica 18, Palatino 12 and Palatino-Italic 12.  On
the first page, type a space using Helvetica 72, Palatino 48 and Palatino-
Italic 48.  Pointless will render these fonts (even though you've only
typed a blank space) and send the bitmaps to the printer.  Start your
actual document lower down on the page, or on the next page.  When the
printer gets to the text, it will scale the existing 4x bitmaps and give
you the highest resolution possible.  With DTP packages, you just have to
make an empty text box with the spaces and stick in the corner.
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