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Re: e/l printing (fwd)



>>>>> "Karsten" == Karsten Schneeberger <ks@fotodesign.spacenet.de> writes:
In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960403170749.685A-100000@fotodesign.spacenet.de> Karsten Schneeberger <ks@fotodesign.spacenet.de> writes:


    Karsten> Printing "AGaramond Italic" on a real Mac without "Font
    Karsten> inclusion" causes Ghostscript to substitue this way:

    Karsten> GS: Substituting font Helvetica-Oblique for
    Karsten> AGaramond-Italic

    Karsten> %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Title: (Ohne Titel 1 \(TV\)) %%Creator:
    Karsten> (ClarisWorks: PSPrinter 8.2.1) %%CreationDate: (16:55 Uhr
    Karsten> Mittwoch, 3. April 1996) %%For: (Karsten Schneeberger)
    Karsten> %%Pages: 1 %%DocumentFonts: AGaramond-Italic
    Karsten> %%DocumentNeededFonts: AGaramond-Italic
    Karsten> %%DocumentSuppliedFonts: %%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
    Karsten> %%PageOrder: Ascend %%Orientation: Portrait
    Karsten> %%DocumentMedia: Default 612 792 0 () () [...]


    Karsten> But printing "AGaramond Italic" with Executor makes
    Karsten> Ghostscript looking for "AGaramond Italic" which is the
    Karsten> MenuName, instead of "AGaramond-Italic" which is the
    Karsten> Postscript FontName.

    Karsten> GS: Substituting font Helvetica-Oblique for AGaramond
    Karsten> Italic

    Karsten> %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Creator: Executor %%DocumentFonts:
    Karsten> (atend) [...]  grestore 36.000000 56.000000 moveto
    Karsten> (AGaramond Italic) [...]  selectfont [...]

    Karsten> Perhaps you will have to change Executor not to use the
    Karsten> MenuName for printing and to use the postscript name
    Karsten> instead. I dont know how to do this if only the MenuName
    Karsten> is stored in the bitmapped fonts. How about not only
    Karsten> dragging the bitmapped fonts to the hot band but also
    Karsten> installing the MacOutlineFont (=printer font) for
    Karsten> downloading to the printer.

OK.  We don't have the postcript name and won't have such added
information until we do a major revamp of our font handling routines.
However, in beta0 and beyond we change all spaces to dashes when
constructing the printing font name.

    Karsten> --- Karsten Schneeberger

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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