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From: spencer@heinlein.cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Stephen N. Spencer)
Subject: re: Printing PostScript under System 7.0
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Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 18:34:00 GMT
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Well, I tried a more controlled test over lunch today.  I printed two
PostScript files from Microsoft Word 4.0 on a IIci running System 7.0.
The first file was an empty document, so that file contained just the
LaserPrep file.  The second document had two lines of text, each line
in Times, one at 12 point, one at 24 point.  

I uploaded both files to the UNIX machine, ran the former file through
"prepfix" and installed it in the macps directory and updated "macps.config".
I then did:

	macps PostScript1 | lpr -PprinterName

and waited.  And waited.  The file which was sent to the laser printer
(LW IINT) was a little under 400K, the VAST majority of it being the
TrueType font scaling engine, I believe.

It printed.  (Yeah!)  

Since the Times-Roman font of the document IS built-in to the LaserWriter,
I replaced all occurrences of "Times-Roman" with "Fred-Roman" in the PostScript
file and sent it to the LaserWriter again.  I thought I'd see if, even though
the PostScript file contained TrueType stuff, the PostScript file accessed the
built-in PostScript fonts on the LaserWriter.

It printed, too.  (Yeah!  Yeah!)

I'm a little dismayed at the length of time it takes to print even the simple
document out (about seven minutes, but it DID have to load almost 400K) but
it does work, and that's what matters to me.


 
-- 
Stephen N. Spencer  		        "Love is never easy    (John Gorka)
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