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From: schoen2@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Schoen)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: fonts on the PC vs. Mac
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Date: 27 Apr 91 04:06:40 GMT
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I'm not sure that this is the proper newsgroup, but here goes...

I will soon be getting a laptop, and switching to a PC from my Mac will
be quite a change.

Here are my problems and questions.  My understanding of printing/fonts
on the Mac is: software sends font information to LW driver, followed by
text/graphics.

How do PC apps print?  I know that there are no universal print drivers, and
that apps are not device-independent, so how are fonts handled??

I want to be able to write documents on my laptop, format them, and create a
postscript file to convert to a Mac and download to the LW.  But, is the
font information saved in the postscript file?  If not, how do I preserve
font information during the PC-Mac transfer?  Can I use the same fonts
on each machine?

Thanks for the help.

schoen2@husc9.harvard.edu