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From: carlile@trwrb.UUCP (Donald E. Carlile)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Laserwriter Question (follow up)
Message-ID: <6406@trwrb.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 88 16:41:09 GMT
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Reply-To: carlile@trwrb.dsd.trw.com.UUCP (Donald E. Carlile)
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I originally composed this as email, but there seems to be enough confusion
about LaserWriter Fonts to warrant posting.

Strictly speaking, the Laserwriter does not understand Geneva, or any other
City name font.  It does understand Helvetica, Times, Courier, etc.  If you
use Geneva, and have font substitution checked, the LW driver will attempt
to translate from Geneva to Helvetica, New York to Times, and Monaco to
Courier.  The results are always less than satisfying, because the spacing of
the fonts is slightly different.

If you have an old version of Geneva, then the FOND resource will not be
correct for translation, and you will get a "Building Bitmap of X font"
message, where X is the name of the font you're trying to print.

In extreme cases, the Laserwriter can run out of memory while doing this
and you will get the "VM+" error.  This appears to crash the printing Mac
as well.  This is probably a LaserWriter driver bug (the crashing, not the
VM+ error).

The best solution is to stay away from city names.

Don Carlile
DISCLAIMER: These are my opinions and observations, and are not necessarily
shared by my employer.  Use at your own risk.