Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: LaserWriter/Postscript for TeX? Message-ID: <862@uw-beaver> Date: Sat, 16-Feb-85 17:24:14 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.862 Posted: Sat Feb 16 17:24:14 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Feb-85 05:46:48 EST Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 24 From: Neal Holtz I have to make a decision very soon as to what laser printer to purchase (am willing to wait a while for full functionality, but the money will evaporate soon). I have not seen any careful analysis of how the LaserWriter and Postcript will handle TeX output. I have also not seen any Postscript documentation that might answer some of the following questions. I assume that over the short term, one would have to live with the standard TeX fonts, sent to the Laser as bitmaps with every document. This frightens me a bit as being quite slow (I know the Laserwriter is not a high-volume printer, but I don't think I would like to average 3 minutes a page). Does anyone have any guesses as to what the throughput might be for an "average" document? Is there anyway to send the bitmaps less frequently (e.g., can they also be cached and the host informed when they must be sent again)? I also assume that the TeX fonts, or more importantly, TeX-compatible fonts will reside in outline form on the LaserWriter. Any guesses as to when this might happen?