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- From: pjl@sparc1.cs.uiuc.edu (Paul Lucas)
- Subject: Re: Postscript & Sys 7.0
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.205606.4460@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:56:06 GMT
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- In <BtoFsJ.o0@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> rouse@sage.cc.purdue.edu (John Rouse) writes:
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- > Under 6.0.x one could hold down the f key when sending something to the
- >Laserwriter and get a nice PostScript file. Under Sys. 7 the f key trick
- >doesn't work so I selected the PostScript file option and ended up with a
- >file many time the size of the file that is created under Sys 6. What is
- >happening and how can I get the same type of file that was produced w/
- >sys 6 and the f key?
-
- *****> It's probably because of TrueType fonts. There are two solutions:
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- 1) remove all the TT fonts that your document uses, at least
- temporarily, then print.
-
- 2) get PSTrimmer, a utility that lets *you* decide what fonts
- get downloaded. You can get it from various mac ftp sites.
- --
- - Paul J. Lucas University of Illinois
- AT&T Bell Laboratories at Urbana-Champaign
- Naperville, IL pjl@cs.uiuc.edu
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