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From: henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Getting Transcript 2.1 to use all LaserWriter Fonts
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Date: 19 Feb 91 00:51:09 GMT
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In article <1406@vidiot.UUCP>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:

    *  The II NTX printer is the unit with a hard disk,
    *  if I remember correctly, since I have the II NT.
    *  Because of the hard disk, more font families can
    *  be resident, non of which are covered by TranScript.

To the best of my admittedly minuscule knowledge, there is nothing
intrinsic to TranScript that will prevent TranScript, or more
precisely, troff and pscat, from working with any font family you desire.

For old troff to correctly format a document using a given font
family, it needs width tables which pscatmap generates from AFM
files.  pscat needs a correspondence file to map character codes
to PostScript strings.  pscatmap builds this correspondence file also.

That's all there is to it -- there are no fonts `built into
TranScript'.  troff can access any fonts, with the understanding you
obtain or create AFM files so pscatmap can generate tables for troff
and pscat, and old troff can only mount four fonts.  I omit the case
of eight-font C/A/T troff.  TranScript has no notion of
printer-resident fonts, downloaded fonts, disk-resident fonts, or
indeed, any idea how to download a font.  TranScript doesn't `cover'
fonts at all -- it's just a translation/communication service.

I hope the original requestor obtained the information he
requested because we'be drifted (too far) off the topic.

	........  Henry