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From: rob@aeras.uucp (Rob Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Getting Transcript 2.1 to use all LaserWriter Fonts
Summary: A clarification on fonts
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Date: 21 Feb 91 02:33:44 GMT
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In article <ip6G8#hl@cs.psu.edu> ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
> Is there any magic I need to perform to convince transcript to use all of
> the builtin laser writer fonts?
>
>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?
>--
>Dan Ehrlich - Sr. Systems Programmer - Penn State Computer Science

A note on fonts:
Helvetica is _not_ a font - it is a _Font Family_

The Laserwriter (Plus/II/IINTX/equiv.) has 35 fonts built-in-
(I didn't make up the names, these are directly from the ROM's)
(Book=Roman, Oblique=Italic, Demi=Bold)

AvantGuard-Book, AvantGuard-BookOblique, AvantGuard-Demi,
AvantGuard-DemiOblique, Bookman-Demi, Bookman-DemiItalic,
Bookman-Light, Bookman-LightItalic, Curier, Curier-Bold
Curier-BoldOblique Curier-Oblique, Helvetica, Helvetica-Bold
Helvetica-BoldOblique, Helvetica-Oblique, Helvetica-Narrow
Helvetica-Narrow-Bold, Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique
Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique, NewCenturySchlbk-Roman
NewCenturySchlbk-Bold, NewCenturySchlbk-BoldOblique
NewCenturySchlbk-Oblique, Palatino-Roman
Palatino-Bold, Palatino-Italic, Palatino-BoldItalic
Symbol, Times-Bold, Times-BoldItalic, Times-Italic
Times-Roman, ZapfChancery-MediumItalic, ZapfDingbats
|_____Courier
|_____Seattle

(The last 2 are defaults for when you don't define a font.)

If you count 'em , I think you'll come up with about 35 (37 counting
the 2 you can't get to). Garamond, Lubalin, Optima and Souvenir are extras
that are downloaded into the printers RAM just like a document - _beyond_
what is built-in to the printer.

Actually, in art/printing circles, each _size_ of a font type (not even font
family) used to be considered a different font (in a Postscript printer, 
you could leagally say you have _THOUSANDS_ of fonts - if you wanted to 
start an ad war).

It's worse than you thought----

 I belive this is what the nice lady from adobe.com was trying to say.
-- 
	Rob Rogers
	Art Director, ARIX Computer Corporation
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