Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!gnh-starport.cts.com!kimbrennan From: kimbrennan@gnh-starport.cts.com (Kim Brennan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: AWGS AND POSTSCRIPT...MY RESULT Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 04:40:05 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The Internet Lines: 41 In reply to Lim Thye Chean: > Times and Helvetica fonts work. Zapf Chancery does not work and being > replaced by Courier. Boy I went over this (the discovery process) quite a bit last year, but as these things happen new people are always coming in late (which is very good, IMHO). Anyway, the Apple Laserwriter printer driver works fine...if and only if you are connected directly up to a Postscript printer via Appletalk. From your comments I can see that you are printing to disk (probably) or talking to a Postscript printer through some other mechanism than Appletalk. When Printing to disk, the Apple Laserwriter driver fails to properly translate GS Screen fonts into the proper naming conventions for Postscript. When this happens the Postscript intrepreter can't find that font and substitutes Courier (ugh) for the 'missing' font. You can 'correct' this problem fairly simply. All you have to have is a text editor (I use the WriteIt! NDA) and the knowledge of what the proper naming conventions are for Postscript. When you print to disk you will get a file called PostscriptGSxx put into your */System/Drivers directory. This file is the file that you send to the postscript printer. Before you send it, however, edit it (or a copy) so that things will work properly. If you use any of the following fonts, you will want to edit your text file so that the Postscript intrepreter will work correctly: AvantGarde, Bookman, N.Hel.Narrow, N.CenturySchlbk (Plain), Palatino (plain), ZapfChancery NOTE: You CAN use CenturySchlbk & Palatino in Italic, Bold or BoldItalic without having to fix the text file Use a search function in your text editor to look for the font that doens't work. When you see something that looks like this: /|______AvantGarde/AvantGarde-Demi T rf /|______AvantGarde ci gf You will have found the proper place to start editing. Note the above example IS correct for plain AvantGarde...the printed to disk file does not normally include the -Demi portion WHICH IS MANDATORY for the Postscript to find your font. (Case is important too, btw). -=> message from kimbrennan@gnh-starport.cts.com <=-