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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Inquiry on How to avoid dumping font bitmaps on Command-F
Message-ID: <2868@esquire.dpw.com>
Date: 29 Nov 90 22:33:39 GMT
References: <1768@malta.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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In-reply-to: matsu@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (MATSUOKA Satoshi)

In article <1768@malta.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, matsu@is (MATSUOKA Satoshi) writes:
>I am using Command-F (actually, I enabled the Save PS button on the
>laserwriter driver) to dump PostScript so that I can include pictures
>drawn on a Mac into my LaTeX file. The problem is that I use ATM, and
>keep the Type 1 font outline files for Times, etc. in my System Folder
>--- in this case, the bitmap of the fonts already available on the
>LaserWriter gets included in the dump file; as a result, a 17kbyte PS
>dump file without font bitmaps has grown to over 4Mb!

The easiest way to avoid this problem is to use DiskTop or ResEdit or
some other tool that can change file types and creators and change the
type of the font files from LWFN to xWFN (or anything else).

The Mac looks for files of type LWFN to download when it's time to
print, so changing the type fools it into not downloading anything.
The result is much smaller PostScript files and less uploading time.

ATM will still work regardless of the type of the font files.  The
only problem is that if you use TypeAlign, it won't be able to find
the fonts because it explicitly looks for files with type LWFN.  So
it's not a perfect solution, but it's close.

Hope this helps.

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