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!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Some rebuttals Message-ID: <933@uw-beaver> Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 14:19:36 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.933 Posted: Tue Mar 19 14:19:36 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Mar-85 05:49:50 EST Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 30 From: Larry Seiler Brief rebuttals to two recent comments: 1) A Laserjet CAN do multi-font printing A while ago, somebody wrote in to laser lovers to say that the HP LaserJet could handle a whopping 3 or 4 fonts per page (or some such small number). With that few fonts, you must be VERY careful of what you create. On the other hand, it was reported that the LN03 can store 23 (or some such) fonts before giving out, which is a much more reasonable limit. I'd call that a big step up. 2) Device independent laser printer format isn't necessary. Last fall, I asked someone to send me a copy of a paper that had multi-fonts. What I got was the pre-formatted version. I had never used that particular formatter before, but I gave it a try, and found out that my machine didn't have the right fonts, so I basically failed to make a reasonable copy. As a user, I didn't want to format the thing, and hunt down fonts - I just wanted to print it. If everybody used the same formatter (with the same font search list), that would be all right. If everybody used the same printer, that would be all right. Failing those, I'd like some standard format that can be printed on any laser printer (even if not optimally) and that can manage to use the right fonts without my worrying about it at all. I think that standardizing on such a format (within any given environment) is easier than standardizing on a single formatter or a single laser printer. Enjoy, Larry Seiler Seiler@MIT-XX -------