Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!dlogics!kam
From: kam@dlogics.UUCP (Kevin Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ATM : Postscript to a file
Summary: Remove the fonts by hand
Message-ID: <280@dlogics.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 90 13:49:57 GMT
References: <966@occrsh.ATT.COM>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Datalogics Inc., Chicago
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In article <966@occrsh.ATT.COM>, jdsb@occrsh.ATT.COM (John_Babcock) writes:
> 
>      How do I deactivate ATM when I write postscript to a file?
> 
> I have ATM installed.  It works fine.  I write a letter in Bookman.
> I save postscript to a file with either 'f' or the checkbox.  I upload
> it to unix, and print it there.
> 
> My problem is before ATM, a file would be 4K.  With ATM installed,
> the file is 69K.  This file has included a downloaded version
> of Bookman-Light.  It looks the same to me.

You can easily edit out the fonts with a word processor. I've noticed
that under LaserWriter 5.2 the structuring conventions are not strictly
followed: you should only have to remove from %%BeginFont to %%EndFont,
but you actually have to remove the "bu fc" before the %%BeginFont.

So, what you have to remove is this:

bu fc

%%BeginFont
...tons of font stuff...
%%EndFont

This shouldn't be so bad, since each font is sent only once.

I use MPW's editor to yank these. I'd post the replace command I use, but
it's full of wierd characters.

Perhaps some enterprising programmer can come up with a font stripper for
PostScript files.



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