Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!notHere
From: notHere (Just Someone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Printers on System 7.0
Message-ID: <4142@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Sep 89 18:26:49 GMT
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In article <902@mtk.UUCP> marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino) writes:
> My boss seems to think that printers that operate on System 7.0 will
> need to provide screen fonts in addition to the fonts necessary for
> printing.  He said a font vendor told him he would need 57 screen fonts.
> 
> I thought System 7.0 was supposed to handle printers more gracefully
> than that.  The information Apple has provided me with doesn't seem to
> address that issue.  Will there be more coming soon?

This is false. The new outline fonts will work both on the screen and on 
the printer. If your printer has 57 fonts built into it then you would 
need the corresponding 57 screen fonts.

Sean Parent