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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Getting Transcript 2.1 to use all LaserWriter Fonts
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Date: 18 Feb 91 06:28:08 GMT
References: <*fcG4w.k@cs.psu.edu> <ip6G8#hl@cs.psu.edu> <1398@vidiot.UUCP> <11151@adobe.UUCP>
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In article <11151@adobe.UUCP> snichols@adobe.COM (Sherri Nichols) writes:
<In article <1398@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<>In article <ip6G8#hl@cs.psu.edu> ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
<><Let me clarify this.  What I really meant to as was how do I convience
<><ptroff, the shell script which runs troff, to use a built in font that adobe
<><did not already build the troff font files for?  By default the transcript
<><installation only builds troff font data for AvantGarde, Bookman, Courier,
<><Garamond, Helvetica, Helvetica Narrow, Lubalin, New Century School Book,
<><Optima, Palatino, Souvenir, Times, and Zapf.  What about the other ~22 fonts
<><my LaserWriter II NTX knows about?
<>
<>Good thing you re-stated the question, because my previous answer will be
<>wrong.
<>
<>I think that you are SOL.  That version of TranScript just doesn't have the
<>other font families built in.
<
<There seems to be a fair amount of confusion on this point.  A LaserWriter
<II NTX has 35 font *typefaces* built in.  All 35 typefaces are covered by
<the above list of font families.  TranScript creates, from AFM files, troff
<font width files for each typeface.  Each font family consists of several
<typefaces, which are mapped to the 4 font positions troff understands.  
<By default, ptroff uses the Times family, consisting of Times-Roman,
<Times-Italic, etc.  To use a different font family with ptroff, you can use
<the -F switch to specify one of the above family names.

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.
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