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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Getting Transcript 2.1 to use all LaserWriter Fonts
Message-ID: <1415@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 91 16:13:21 GMT
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In article <446@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> henry@angel.Eng.Sun.COM (Henry McGilton) writes:
<In article <1406@vidiot.UUCP>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
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<    *  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.

TranScript is a complete package name, included the programs psroff, ptroff,
psdit, pscat, enscript, etc.  You are correct that font width tables are needed
and the set that comes with TranScript is NOT enough to cover anything but the
fonts that come on the standard LaserWriter II printers (with a couple of
extra).  This user needs the other font table information so that he can get
TranScript set up to use other fonts that he has on his printer.  As TranScript
is currently shipped, he can't.

So, does Adobe have available through its mailserver the necessary files for
the other fonts in the printer?  Adobe will have to answer that question.
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