Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: PostScript Conspiracy
Message-ID: <6488@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 3 Sep 88 20:49:43 GMT
References: <565@pcrat.UUCP> <47700023@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <47700023@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>I got a LaserJet II instead.  1) Can't print more than 16 fonts per page.

>Odd. I have in my hand a page from my LaserJet II with 36 lines
>of text, each in a different font.
....
>What is this "pic/troff" stuff? I'm using TeX.

As I understand things, TeX doesn't download complete fonts, just each
character it needs. By keeping track of which character it put into
which position in which font slot, it is able to overcome the printer
limitation (as long as you don't actually use every character of each
font in your document).

I have heard that there is such a thing as a TeX dvi driver for
postscript that actually uses the postscript fonts instead of the
above method, but I haven't actually seen one.

Les Mikesell