Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!taob
From: taob@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Brian Tao)
Subject: Re: POSTSCIPT AND AWGS
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 91 21:59:16 EDT
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ISSLTC@NUSVM.BITNET (Lim Thye Chean) writes:

> Hi, Thye Chean here.
> 
> After reading about 10 to 20 messages I receive or in the net, it seems
> that there are some faults on the PostScript file that might prevents
> fonts from coming out correctly. But it is ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE as far as
> I am concerned. I tried it this morning with a 2 page sample document
> produced from AWGS page layout module. Using Times 12, 2 bit-mapped
> graphics, I print it to PostScript, convert it to Mac, send it to SendPS
> program, and the result is fantastic.

    You might have taken some of those messages a little bit out of 
context.  There _are_ some inconsistencies with the GS/OS LaserWriter 
driver, and they prevent it from printing out certain fonts (I don't 
remember off-hand what they are).  Times is a typeface which _does_ work as 
advertised, as do Helvetica, Avant Garde, Courier, Palatino and a few 
others.  I have screen fonts for about 20 of Adobe's PostScript fonts, and 
if I want to print to a LaserWriter, I generally stick to the fonts I 
mentioned above.
