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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!jgm
- From: jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat)
- Subject: Problems printing Encapusulated PostScript files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.133617.17755@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:36:17 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- > The specific parts that get altered are these carat (^) symbols
- > that appear over other math symbols. In the laser printout, the
- > carat symbols have been turned into larger V's with serifs.
-
- I ran into this problem myself recently.
-
- When you use LaTeX it creates fonts from bitmaps and includes them
- in the PostScript file directly.
-
- When you use MacDraw or something, if you include text in the picture
- then it will generally NOT do this. Instead it will use a PostScript
- font. So if you select "GaramondBoldItalic" it will put a reference
- to that font in the EPSF file.
-
- But, what if your printer doesn't happen to have "GaramondBoldItalic" font?
-
- GhostScript still runs it properly because you probably have the font
- on-line and it knows where to look.
-
- Your printer is probably substituting a different font, which is nice
- I guess instead of just crashing with an error like some printers do.
-
- I suggest using MacDraw and changing the text in your diagram to
- something really normal and standard like Times-Roman.
-
- Let us know if it works! Maybe I'm wrong on all this.
-
- -Jon
-