Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!nprdc!malloy
From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: converting fonts to Windows format
Keywords: converting fonts windows format
Message-ID: <9562@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 14 Sep 90 15:37:38 GMT
References: <37185@ut-emx> <16044@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <16044@thorin.cs.unc.edu> fritsch@threonine.cs.unc.edu (Dan Fritsch) writes:
>                              GoScript demands that you purchase it's own
>fonts (proprietary format), while SuperPrint works with almost any font
>vendor's format. Also, GoScript does not have its own screen fonts - you
>must get postscript matching screen fonts elsewhere.

It's not strictly true that GoScript requires that you use their own
fonts; I have used several downloadable PostScript fonts that I have
obtained from BBSs and the net. The difference is that GoScript will
not handle loading the font automatically; you must explicitly specify
any additional font files in your invocation of GoScript. For example,
if you had some random font in the file newfont.ps, and your document
using that font was in the file document.ps, to use the font in the
document, you would have to use the command:

	gs newfont.ps document.ps

Also, since GoScript was never intended to be a printer driver, not
having its own screen fonts is not a failure on the part of LaserGo.
GoScript is intended to provide the ability to print PostScript files
to users without PostScript printers. Buying a PostScript printer does
not generally get you screen fonts for the fonts in the printer; that
usually is left to the application to provide.



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