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From: jvmiller@zeno1.rdrc.rpi.edu (Jim Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tools for writing manuals...
Summary: AmigaTeX, Laser printers
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Date: 12 Jul 89 13:28:14 GMT
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In article <19497@louie.udel.EDU>, MFM1%LEHIGH.BITNET@ibm1.cc.lehigh.edu (mark masters) writes:
> 
> Just a quick question about AmigaTex... does it use postscript laser
> printers?

The package of AmigaTeX I bought came with the drivers for three
laser printers: the HP LaserJet, LaserWriter, and a third of which
I do not recall the manufacturer.

I assume that they use the postscript capabilities of the LaserWriter.
The way the printer drivers (and print programs) operate is that they
download to your printer any fonts that are required.  This operation
takes much less time then performing a bitmap dump to your laser
printer.   I believe postscript printers allow you to download fonts.

For me, this was a cheap ($300) to get many, many, many fonts.  As a
comparison, the font cartridges for the LaserJet run about $300 apiece
for the nice fonts (And you can't scale them).  I would had to purchase
as least two cartridges to get the fonts I now have.


Jimmy Miller