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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Downloading Postscript fonts to a printer?
Message-ID: <417@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 8 Feb 91 19:57:34 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.162711.1014@shaman.uucp>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <1991Feb6.162711.1014@shaman.uucp> jiro@shaman.uucp (Jiro Nakamura) writes:
>Does anyone know how to download Postcript fonts from the NeXT to a printer?
>I have a PostScript printer (Canon LBP-8) hooked up to my NeXT via the
>serial port, but I haven't had much success in downloading fonts.
>  Is there a special procedure one must do? I did the obvious thing
>of just cat-ing the font to the printer directly (cat font.ps > /dev/ttyb)
>but that didn't do much, the printer munched on it and promptly forgot
>about the font when I tried to print something.

You need to precede the font by a short bit of PostScript that will
cause the font to stay downloaded until you power it off.  Below is the
canonical form of that bit of PostScript, although I don't know
anything about the Canon LBP-8 (is it Adobe PostScript?):

%!
serverdict begin 0 exitserver

%!PS-AdobeFont-2.0
% font goes here

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