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From: rchui@neptune.nswc.navy.mil (Chui)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: how to download an Adobe font with UNIX
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.203744.11125@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
Date: 15 Jun 91 20:37:44 GMT
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We licensed a copy of an Adobe font... sonata specifically
We were given a choice of PC or Mac format, and chose PC format
because we have PC's here but no Mac's. However the PC's are NOT
connected to any of the printers.. They're all connected to Unix machines,
so that we use lpr to send PostScript files to the printers.
lpr refused to send the so______.pfb file because it began with something
binary and not ascii.. 
So I stripped that header off and got down to something beginning
with %!.. I sent this and this time the printer complained that a
command looking like swearing (ie characters not in the standard
7bit ascii range) was not defined... The file contains binary and
the printer cannot accept.. 

Has anyone surmounted the problem? Is there a magiv incantation that
one must mutter to lpr or the printer to get the printer to accept
the font definition..

There's gotta be.. because I cannot believe that you cannot use these
fonts through UNIX.


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1st what printer you connected to Unix machine?
2nd You must buy a Postscript cartridge and install to the printer.
3rd You need to write a output filter file for Postscript file, install this
    outout filter file in /etc/printcap file of=/usr/local/lib/offil.

	I am working on that output filter file right now. This output filter
file must perform three functions.

	1) Check is it a Postcript file?
	2) Check is(are) there other print job(s) on the printer?
	If 1) is True and 2) is False, then sent a toggle signal to printer, 
	switch to Postscript mode. 
	3) Sent print job.

	I will post the source code of the output filter file. Or if anyone
know there is other way to print the Postscript file in Unix machine. Please
post in this newsgroup or email to me.

email address: rchui@neptune.nswc.navy.mil

	-Raymond