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From: mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage)
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Subject: Re: Why can't I get the LW Monaco instead of the bitmap Monaco?
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Date: 12 Mar 92 21:31:15 GMT
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In article <1992Mar6.021820.15148@cco.caltech.edu>, toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
> This is a LW IINT, so Monaco is in the printer.
> 
> Does the sys 6 LW driver fix this or is something else wrong?
> 
> Todd Whitesel
> toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu

Something else is wrong -- you.  <ba dum bump>

There is no "Monaco" in any of Apple's LaserWriters, nor in any other
PostScript printer to my knowledge.  If you turn off Font Substitution, you get
a type 3 font created from the bitmap font, just like you do for all
non-PostScript fonts.

You don't get TrueType on the LaserWriter because the IIgs LaserWriter
driver:

a)  has no TrueType renderer that runs on the printer to download to the
    printer,
b)  has no way to find the TrueType data for any Font Manager font, and
c)  doesn't have the technology to convert such fonts to Type 1 so they'll
    print on printers that can't run the TrueType renderer.

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