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From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
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Subject: Adobe type 1 fonts on NeWS/Pageview/NeWSprint
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Has anyone found a way to contend with Adobe Type 1 fonts in any of the
NeWS based software? I'm particularly interested in being able to preview
documents that have Adobe Type 1 fonts actually embedded in the document
via the eexec operator.

Adobe Type 1 used to be proprietary, but no longer is. There are
conversion programs that go from Adobe Type 1 to Type 3, which is more
portable, and I believe would work on NeWS. Unfortunately, the only
conversion programs I know of don't run in the Sun environment (there are
DOS, PC, and I think Mac programs).

Incidentally, if you have been using Suns with Transcript and Laserwriters
to do print service for Macs (say with CAP), I believe that this will stop
working if you "upgrade" to NeWSPrint because of the Type 1 issue.

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