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- From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
- Subject: Re: ghostscript/HP Laserjet implementation
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:41:11 GMT
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- gross@maxwell.ucsc.edu (Mike Gross) writes:
-
- > I'm administering a Sparc SLC running SunOS 4.1.1, and I have an HP
- >Laserjet 2 with a postscript cartridge. The problem is that the postscript
- >cartridge has a few annoying incompatibilities. To try to get around these,
- >I would like to run the HP in its normal PCL mode, and use ghostscript to
- >interpret postscript commands. ....
-
- I might be a solution, but...
-
- - Do you have the Adobe Type 1 fonts that are supported by your PS
- cartridge? GS only has bitmap look-alikes of those fonts and you
- really need the original fonts then (which you can buy as Adobe Type
- manager and its accompanying Plus Pack).
-
- - The needed time to transfer one PS page to the printer will increase
- dramatically, because you'll use (compressed) bitmaps now.
-
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