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- From: c60a-bh@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Ben Cottrell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Printing to Postscript File
- Message-ID: <c60a-bh.722547026@danube.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:30:26 GMT
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- pjl@cs.uiuc.edu (Paul Lucas) writes:
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- >In <37229@cbmvax.commodore.com> kominetz@cbmvax.commodore.com (John Kominetz - CATS) writes:
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- >>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.
- >--
- > - Paul J. Lucas University of Illinois
- > AT&T Bell Laboratories at Urbana-Champaign
- > Naperville, IL pjl@cs.uiuc.edu
-
- Try turning off the "Unlimited Downloadable Fonts" option in the Page
- Setup... dialog.
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