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From: cdh@specialix.co.uk (Alan Drew)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Anybody got some *complicated* PostScript files?
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.172049.29769@specialix.co.uk>
Date: 5 Apr 91 17:20:49 GMT
References: <1991Apr5.015554.12832@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Specialix International, London
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acli@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Ambrose C. Li) writes:

>In article <3692@ux.acs.umn.edu> you write:
>> [A Request]

>The actual code is not really complicated, but this is one of the things
>that I won't dare to send to the Laserwriter at peak times; the time to
>decode Hershey plus the time to scale it at 24 pts simply kills a Laser-
>writer. The doc says that it should print out a sample of Hershey Gothic
>English in 8 minutes but the Laserwriter printed it in 16. Can you mail
>me how long it takes to print it? I'm curious...

> [encoded  postcript deleted]


	Tried this on a TI microlaser with a postscript cartridge and 
2 Megs of RAM in it. Does the Hershey font in 11.5 minutes.

	Damn nice font too.

	While I am here does anybody have any more font's available or
is there an ftp site I can get them from (.afm or postscript)


Thanks