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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
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Subject: Re: System 7 and LARGE PostScript files
Keywords: System 7, PostScript
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Date: 24 May 91 03:58:15 GMT
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In article <17182@chopin.udel.edu>, weave@chopin.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes:
|> This also caused me quite a shock.  I am not on a net with a laser printer. 
|> I therefore print postscript to a file, then go to the next building and 
|> dump it using SendPS. Been doing this for years.
|> 
|> Today I edited a 4 page final exam using New Century Schoolbook font. I
|> printed to a postscript file using the new 7.0 Postscript button. Made
|> a postscript file of 640K!!!! 
|> 
|> I took this healthy sized PS file to the other building, and it took 20
|> minutes to print 4 pages of text!  I had other users ready to kill me.
|> 
|> Can someone explain what is going on, technically? Is New Cent Schlbk a
|> True Type font?  Does this TT font get downloaded and defined in the
|> laser printer?  Since the net I printed on is still running system 6, 
|> would it be better if everyone was running 7? ie, once the TT font is 
|> downloaded to the LW, would subsequent printouts occur more quickly?
Since you are printing to file, the printer driver has no way of
knowing what's in the printer when it generates the PostScript. I
doubt there will be any difference unless you can get a direct
connection to a laser printer.

I doubt very much that there's a TT version of New Century Schoolbook
yet. Some points to check:

1. Are you sure your document doesn't contain _any_ TT fonts (not in a
   picture, a footnote or a heading)?
2. Are you running ATM? This may also generate huge PostScript files
   (though I suspect not as big)
3. Do you have a PostScript version of the font in your System folder?
   If so, this will be added to the file (this overlaps point 2)
4. Check the PostSript generated. Search for %%BeginFont:
   If there's a vast amount of hexadecimal shortly after, you have a
   font definition downloaded in your document
If all else fails, try taking the TT fonts out of the System file
(identify them by the lack of a size in their name and the fact that they
are relatively large). The easiest way of finding then all at once is to
view the open System file by size.

The new print to file feature is a vast amount better than the old
one. If some kind person at Apple is reading this, I hope you will add
controlling this font downloading nightmare to your checklist if
it's not there already.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu