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From: jhc@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
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Subject: Re: Gratuitous incompatibility with NeXT postscript printer?
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Date: 12 Feb 89 23:34:44 GMT
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In article <1788@cps3xx.UUCP> riordan@frith.UUCP (Mark Riordan {of Systems}) writes:
>     [... ...]      , what fonts are available for NeXT Postscript 
>support?  I'm trying to figure out how likely it is that files
>generated for a Laserwriter (perhaps by a PC wordprocessor) will
>print on a NeXT.
>Thanks.    riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu

As far as I can tell, only the Times, Helvetica, & Courier families and
Symbol are available on 0.8.  There is also a screen only font called Ohlfs
that is sans serrif, & has larger x-height than Courier.  (It is more
legible on the screen than Courier is, but if you try to specify Ohlfs in ps
code sent to the printer, it comes out in Courier.

(Actually, anytime you ask for an unknown font when printing to the printer,
you get Courier w/o any error messages that I can find.)

Perhaps the LW+ fonts will be included in .9/1.0.

-JimC
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