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From: jensen@trout.nosc.mil (Layne K. &,B217/1,31687,5787549)
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Subject: Re: Page Stream - > Postscript & more
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Date: 6 Feb 89 16:21:53 GMT
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From article <1681@ssc.UUCP>, by fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes):
> In article <874@nosc.NOSC.MIL>, jensen@trout.nosc.mil (Layne K. &,B217/1,31687,5787549) writes:
>> From article <1673@ssc.UUCP>, by fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes):
> 
>> > Well, it may create PostScript but it won't write it to disk.
> 
>> Since I'm the one who made the original request for help in writing
>> PostScript to disk from PageStream V1.5, I guess I should follow up with
>> what I have learned.
> 
>>                 First, you can only use screen fonts for which the
>> corresponding PostScript printer fonts are available. 
> 
> Just a quick comment - when I originally ordered PageStream (~June 89)
> as an upgrade to PP, SoftLogik "assured" me that you could use any of
> the fonts distributed with PageStream with a PostScript printer.
> 
> Guess that pretty well covers my situation.
> -- 
> Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
>     uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl or uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl

Over the weekend I used the font conversion program that came with PageStream
V1.5 to convert one of my old Publishing Partner fonts for use in PageStream.
One feature of the conversion program is to write out a file that apparently
is downloaded to the PostScript printer along with the document.  So the
assumption is that any PageStream (or Publishing Partner) font can indeed be
used with a PostScript printer.  I haven't had a chance to go through the
whole process yet to confirm that it works, but will report as soon as I find
out.  The PostScript font file to be downloaded was approximately 32K bytes
in length.  This was for the Calligraphy font, so it may be larger than
average, but I was still surprised at the size.

Has anyone else gone through the whole process?  I'll try to refrain from
making any more misleading statements until I understand the situation
better.  It's not fair to SoftLogik.  (But I surely wish this area was better
documented!)

Layne Jensen                        jensen@nosc.MIL
Naval Ocean Systems Center          ...!sdcsvax!noscvax!jensen
San Diego, CA