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- From: pjl@cs.uiuc.edu (Paul Lucas)
- Subject: Re: Printing to Postscript File
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:10:49 GMT
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- In <37229@cbmvax.commodore.com> kominetz@cbmvax.commodore.com (John Kominetz - CATS) writes:
-
- >I would like to print documents in MSWorks 3.0 to a postscript file.
- >The Laserwriter printer driver allows you to do this with an option
- >at print-time, but the file for a 1 page document is in excess of
- >700K. Since this document was entirely text, I assume that it is
- >creating bitmaps of the font (Times) and saving the bitmap rather
- >that the straight text with formatting/font commands.
-
- >My question is this: How can I create a postscript file that uses
- >text/font/formatting information rather than bitmaps? (The system
- >is a Mac LCII running 7.0.1, and there is no printer attached.)
- >Thanks in advance.
-
- It's the TrueType software and fonts that cause the file-size
- explosion; get PSTrimmer from your favorite archive site.
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- - Paul J. Lucas University of Illinois
- AT&T Bell Laboratories at Urbana-Champaign
- Naperville, IL pjl@cs.uiuc.edu
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