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From: wnp@iiasa.AT (Wolf PAUL)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows not auto-downloading softfonts
Message-ID: <1051@iiasa.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 91 12:39:54 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.145330.21348@tc.fluke.COM>
Organization: IIASA, Laxenburg/Vienna, Austria, Europe
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jfadams@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Adams) writes:
> Of course, this example pertains to ATM using a Postscript printer.  A
> PCL printer more than likely uses a slightly different scheme.  Since
> ATM generates PCL fonts "on the fly" from the Postscript data, there
> may be some connection.

Unfortunately ATM does NOT generate PCL fonts on the fly, rather it
creates a bitmapped image of the page, and thus produces rather
voluminous, slow-printing output ... 

And I have been unable to get auto-downloading to work to a HP LaserJet with
the Adobe PS Cartridge; of course I added the *.pfb pathnames to the
font entries in win.ini, but nothing works.
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