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From: phys59@jetson.uh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Getting a Sample of Each Font on AppleLaser Wr. II.
Message-ID: <8908.27ee2ffe@jetson.uh.edu>
Date: 25 Mar 91 17:14:38 CST
References: <16763@chopin.udel.edu>
Organization: University of Houston
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In article <16763@chopin.udel.edu>, jeremym@chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz) writes:
> Well.. here's the scanario:
> 
> 	I have an Amiga 2000 at home running the word processor
> 	Excellence!. After typing up a documment, I print
> 	the file to a disk file with the postscript lang
> 	and then upload it to our sun-workstation network.
> 
> 	After printing it, I notice that the fonts it has in
> 	ROM come out 5 billion times nicer than the Amiga
> 	fonts that need translation into ps.
> 
> 	How can I get my Laserwriter (through the network)
> 	to print out a sample of EVERY font it knows in ROM
> 	and a few characters to see all the typestyles I
> 	can play with?
> 
> Please reply thru here or mail and I appreciate your time.
>  
> -jer
> 
> -- 
> E Pluribus //  Contacts: jeremym@brahms.udel.edu or jeremym@chopin.udel.edu or
>   Unix    //		 jeremym@freezer.acs.udel.edu -amiga clasic 2000- 
>       \\ // 	          --->Monitor of comp.sys.amiga.emulations<--- 
>        \X/                2001 Dalmations - My stars, its full of dogs...
Try sending it this:

initmatrix FontDirectory {pop dup findfont 12 scalefont setfont 50 string cvs
0 0 moveto show 0 15 translate} forall showpage

That little fragment of code should print out an unsorted list of up to 48
fonts.  With suitable modification, I suppose it could do more (That is left as
an exercise to the reader).
It works on POST version 1.5 for the Amiga, I haven't tested it on a
LaserWriter.
Ron Parker, phys59@jetson.uh.edu
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