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Subject: Re: PostScript hackery (getting fonts out of your printer)
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 04:26:27 EDT
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From: Brian Reid <reid@Glacier>

The companies that sell fonts tend to be paranoid about letting copies
of the font rasters fall into the hands of users. I know that at least
one of the big-name font companies will not license its fonts to laser
printer manufacturers unless they put the fonts into the printer
itself (rather than in some companion software external to the
printer). I believe that the font companies are afraid that someone
will steal their rasters and re-sell them. As Chuck Bigelow has pointed
out several times, U.S. law does not prohibit the theft of fonts (only
the mis-use of trademarked font names), so font companies must resort
to technical schemes to protect their fonts instead of legal schemes.

The bottom line of all this is that you are quite unlikely to find a
way to recover font rasters from any manufacturer's laser printer, in
order to make a logo or anything else. I'm reasonably certain that you
can't do it on a PostScript printer. What I recommend that you do is
to print the logo out in a large size (PostScript will help you here by
letting you scale the logo to fill an 8.5 x 11 page), and then digitize
it. The Macintosh ThunderScan is a very fine digitizer for that kind of
application. You can then feed it to your PostScript printer as a
scanned image instead of a synthetic image.
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	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA