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From: rickk@hpvcla.HP.COM (Rick Klaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Laserwriter Question (follow up)
Message-ID: <3770019@hpvcla.HP.COM>
Date: 13 May 88 20:25:07 GMT
References: <27805@cca.CCA.COM>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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	The laserwriter has a set of fonts that are internally stored
as postscript.  These include most of the fonts that you use most of the
time, e.g. Times, Helv., Courier, etc.  These are listed in the manual.
Font substitution only applies to the fonts that were mentioned in 
previous postings (also listed in the LW manual).  Any others MUST be 
downloaded from the MAC for the LW to use them.  If a document uses a font
that is not in the LW (and not one of the substituted fonts), the MAC will
look for a screen (bitmap) version to download.  Its first choice is a font
that is 4 times as large as the screen point size since this gives the 
best quality on the LW.  However, if it can't find this large of a size it
will use a smaller font that is scaled up, thus the print that looks like a
screen dump.
	The MAC will not download the font more than once for the document
unless it has to use the extra memory for another font or for the bitmap of
the page.  This could make the download appear random...

	page 1 - uses MYFONT1, downloads to LW
	page 2 - uses MYFONT1, doesn't download again
	page 3 - uses MYFONT2, replaces MYFONT1 in memory
	page 4 - uses MYFONT1 again, requires another download
	...etc...

	If the objection you are having is the print quality, then you need
to either only use the LW internal fonts, or get large scale (4x) versions
of the fonts that you are using.

Hope this is helpful

Rick Klaus

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