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- From: trevore@vast.unsw.edu.au (Trevor Elbourne (Supr. Hell) BE)
- Subject: Re: Bug in PageStream 2.21
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:27:28 GMT
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- blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter) writes:
- : Trevor Elbourne (Supr. Hell) BE (trevore@vast.unsw.edu.au) wrote:
- : : blatter@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Martin A. Blatter) writes:
- : : : Trevor Elbourne (Supr. Hell) BE (trevore@vast.unsw.edu.au) wrote:
- : : : : Also If I use CGFonts in PageStream I get a good print from pageStream.
- : : : : But when printing to file and using post they all come up as my default font.
- : : : As Post does not have any resident fonts you must either make sure
- : : : that you're using a font in Soft-Logik format or Garamond in CG
- : : : format or you must supply the font in Adobe Type 1 format and
- : : : put it into Post's font path.
- : : I thought that much so I made sure that the postcript versions
- : : of the fonts were available. No luck though. Post did not even attempt to
- : : access them acording to snoopdos. It went ahead and printed with the default
- : : font.
- :
- : There are two things you must take care of. First make sure you font
- : directory has been added to the file init.ps. Assuming your type 1
- : fonts are in data:outlinefonts/outlines-type1-HQ/ the following entry
- : must be present:
- :
- : systemdict
- : /findfont
- : {
- : [...]
- : % Look in all our font directories
- : dup FontDirectory exch known not % Not in FontDirectory?
- : { dup (data:outlinefonts/outlines-type1-HQ/) () loadfont
- : } if
- : [...]
- :
- : Second, the file name of the font file must be the same as the FontName
- : referenced in the PostScript code. Examples of valid file names for
- : post are:
- :
- : Times-Roman
- : Bodoni-BoldItalic
- :
- : Invalid file names are:
- :
- : TimesRoman
- : Bodoni-BoldItalic.pfb
-
- Yes, this much I can work out. What I do with post is run Snoopdos to
- see the name it is looking for. It scans all the directories (usualy) and
- looks for the appropriate font. In this case there is no HD accsess at all
- Snoopdos does not pick it up. And the default font is used instead. But
- given PageStream can render to screen it should be able to print to Postscript if need be as a high res (300x300 dpi) bitmap.
-
-
-
- :
- : Hope that helps
- : --Martin
- :
-
- Mybe Post scans for all fonts at the beggining were Snoopdos
- has yet to pickup Posts file opening. There is some mention abou possible
- probs like that in snoopdos. Thanks though for the help. A quick note how
- do I get Post (by editing init.ps) to always open in BW rather than color ?
-
- Thanks for ya trouble.
- George
-