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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: TrueType glitch?
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.005704.19996@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 00:57:04 GMT
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I just upgraded to system 6.0.7 and the truetype init.  It worked
well, except when I went to print.  Our printers are imagens.
Truetype decided (apparently) to download bitmaps of the fonts it was
going to print.  After 2 pages I had to quit the print dialogue
because my disk was full (The "PostScript" file was 1.1 meg of hex
code).  TrueType had only downloaded 2 fonts.

Is truetype going to do this with all its fonts, on non-laserwriter
printers?  If so, truetype is unusable to me.  I used to think it was
excessive when a 25 page document required 350K of postscript; now it
seems that a 25 page document may well require 4 Mb of postscript in
order to print.

I have downgraded to my old patched system 6.0 printing tools until I
can find some workaround to this problem.


Don Gillies	     |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gillies@cs.uiuc.edu  |  Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL
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