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From: hammen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Robert Hammen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType?
Message-ID: <1990Sep08.103106.8943@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 90 10:31:06 GMT
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If you print TrueType fonts to a PostScript printer with System 7, you see
the message "Downloading font scaling code" flash by in the printer status
window. Previous discussions on the net have centered on whether or not this
code is being sent down as 68000-based machine code or not. Two interesting
results I found when attempting to find out just what was going on.

1) I printed a test to a Qume CrystalPrint Publisher II. The printer uses
a PostScript clone, and uses a Weitek RISC chip for its controller. It took 
45 minutes to an hour for it to generate a waterfall that an NTX printed in
about five minutes. 

2) I printed a test to an Abaton LaserScript. This printer uses the Bauer
PostScript clone that is the basis of Microsoft's TrueImage PDL. The page
would not print because the language currently doesn't support the eexec
operator.

3) I printed a test to a NewGen Turbo/PS 480. This RIPS PS clone uses an
Intel RISC chip for a processor. The page printed in about 10 minutes.

The next two tests I will run will be on a software-based PS interpreter
(the Hyphen clone RIP) and a Linotronic 300/RIP 4.

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