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- From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: Uses and Differences Between Type 1 and Type 2
- Message-ID: <6737@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 21:34:11 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.185712.16193@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
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- In article <1992Nov11.185712.16193@u.washington.edu>
- yeonwook@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Choi) writes:
-
- >Hello. Recently, I've been shopping around for a good postscript printer.
- >Most of these printers have upgraded to Postscript Level 2. Does that mean
- >it uses Postscript type 2? I've never heard of such an Adobe format. My
- >previous knowledge was of only Type 1, 3, 4 and 5, but no 2.
-
- Simple. There is no 'Type 2' font.
-
- Level 2 PostScript is a major revision of the old (Level 1)
- PostScript. It gives you lots of good stuff - device independant
- colour, resources, better VM useage, much better device handling, etc
- etc - but this is a language version, not a font type.
-
- >I have DVIPS and TeX installed on my system, but I am afraid to buy a
- >"Level 2" printer because DVIPS uses Type 1 fonts and spits out Adobe
- >1 files.
-
- That will be just fine.
-
- >Can Type 1 be used with a Type 2 printer? What are the main diferences
- >between Type 1 and Type 2?
-
- I believe you will now see there is no Type 2.
-
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- Chris Lilley
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