Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!exodus!birdland!rberlin From: rberlin@birdlandEng.Sun.COM (Rich Berlin) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: SPARCprinter problems Message-ID: <11213@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 8 Apr 91 01:39:03 GMT References: Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: rberlin@Eng.Sun.COM Distribution: comp.windows.open-look Organization: Sun Microsystems Lines: 57 In article , pavern@uk.ac.man.cs (Nigel Paver (SF ra)) writes: |> 1. I have a postscript file that printed alright on a laser writer |> with the following line in it: |> /Times findfont 10 scalefont setfont |> |> when I printed it on the SPARCprinter a message came out after |> the file saying: |> Times not found, using Courier |> if I look through the demo program font browser in openwindows |> it seems to have all the Times fonts/sizes I could ever want!. |> Why does it complain? Someone may have mislead you by abbreviating the name. The fonts in that family are named Times-Roman, Times-Bold, etc. When I do /Times findfont on an Adobe interpreter it replies %%[ Warning: Times not found, using Courier. ]%% I would therefore assume that your other printer has a font called Times, or perhaps a findfont procedure which does partial matching on the name. If you really want to be able to call it "Times" you could try modifying a Synonyms.list file in one of the directories searched by your FONTPATH. |> 2. How often do I have to use the fixframe utility?. I have tried |> a few framemaker documents and they have come out alright without |> using fixframe. The fixframe program was written in order to allow pageview to preview documents from FrameMaker (normally, pageview only works on DSC compliant PostScript.) I don't see any reason for you to need fixframe when printing.... |> 3. How to I change the default resolution on the SPARCprinter? |> 300dpi/400dpi ? (sun did not leave us any manuals!) There's a utility included with PreLimn. If you print using pl instead of lpr, you can do % pl file :res400 to get 400 dpi (and conversely, :res300 to get 300 dpi). The printer can be set up to default to whichever resolution you like, so if you want a particular resolution, it would be best to specify it. The res400 macro inserts postscript into your document, something like: /setres where {pop 400 setres} if I've spoken to at least one person on the net who has a dvi-to-ps program that he's configured to do this automatically, Unfortunately I can't remember the name. Perhaps he'll read this and post again? -- Rich