Downloading a Type 1 Font to a PostScript Printer

Downloading a Type 1 Font to a PostScript Printer

Some outline fonts are usually built into a PostScript printer. You can find out which fonts are known to the PostScript interpreter in your printer by sending the following file to that printer:

%!
% Produce a list of available fonts
/f 100 string def
/Times-Roman findfont 12 scalefont setfont
/y 700 def
72 y moveto
FontDirectory { 
   pop f cvs show 72 /y y 13 sub def y moveto 
} forall
showpage

Utopia fonts are not usually built into PS printers. If you try to print a document that requires a Utopia font on a PS printer that does not have that font, a warning message about the replacement of a missing font with a Courier font is sent to the file /usr/spool/lp/log on the system to which that PS printer is attached.

You can download a Type 1 font to a PS printer in either of the following two ways:

You can insert a Type 1 font file at the beginning of the PostScript file that needs that font. You should have a statement that starts with:
%!
Put this statement at the beginning of your PS file. If you have two such lines, delete the second one.

When you download a font this way, the font is available only while your print job is being processed.
You can make a copy of a Type 1 font file, and then insert the statement:
serverdict begin 0 exitserver
after the first group of comment statements (lines that start with %) if no password has been specified for your printer; otherwise, replace 0 in the above statement with the password for your printer. Then send the edited file to your printer.

When you download a font this way, the warning message:

%%[ exitserver: permanent state may be changed ]%%
is sent to the file /usr/spool/lp/log on the system to which the printer is attached.

The permanent state of the printer is not really changed. Downloaded fonts disappear when you reset the printer by switching its power off and on. If there is not enough memory for additional fonts, you receive a message about a Virtual Memory (VM) error, and the font is not downloaded.

If you again send the program that produces a list of available fonts to your printer, you should see the PostScript names of the fonts you downloaded on that list.

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