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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: <1419@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 91 04:32:33 GMT
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Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
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In article <11293@adobe.UUCP> snichols@adobe.COM (Sherri Nichols) writes:
<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.
<
<The II NTX printer does not come with a hard disk.  A hard disk can be
<attached to it.  Given the way the original poster phrased his question
<(listing the family names, counting them out, and coming up 22 short of 35)
<I didn't get the impression he had a hard disk with extra fonts.  

What made me go in the direction that I did was because he listed the Garramond
font, which isn't part of the LaserWriter IINT series.  At least it isn't in
my printer.  So I guessed that he had a hard disk on his printer and was
trying to access the fonts loaded on the disk.

I too first leaned toward his not counting the fonts correctly.  So, I guess
we need to hear back from the original posted as to what font familes are
actually in his printer.  Since most font families have four fonts, it doesn't
take long to get to the original 35 count.

What a mess when the description of the fonts in the printer isn't
standardized.  Well, maybe it is, but I don't like how they cheat the count.
"Wow, 35 fonts in my printer.  Gee all kinds of different kinds of type
styles."  That is, until you find out that for almost all of the font faces,
the printer people used up four of those fonts.  Same font face, just a
different slant on life (pun intended).  Instead of 35, you have eight font
faces with four styles and three other single font faces.  Not exactly a
whole bunch of fonts, is it? :-)
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