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From: cczdao@clan.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: storing downloadable bitmap fonts on a printer's disk
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Date: 21 Jul 90 13:03:37 GMT
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Reply-To: cczdao@clan.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, UK
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we use PostScript printers as TeX output devices and currently use
mainly Computer Modern fonts.  for each TeX document, there are a
(potentially large) number of bitmaps sent to the printer describing
the individual glyphs used in the document.  with a 9600 baud serial
line and a large document, this can be time consuming, so i'd like to
be able to download the most-frequently-used fonts to the printers to
store on their disks (the printers being an Agfa P3400PS with an
internal 20Mb disk and a LaserWriter II NTX with an external 20Mb).

i'm NOT attempting to generate outline fonts from METAFONT output,
just to store as a printer resident font all the bitmaps for the
characters in a font, as they would be sent to the printer from the
DVI driver... i use James Clark's dvitops.

can this be done?  if so, how?
grateful thanks offered for all solutions.

- dave -
David Osborne