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From: garth@cs.swarthmore.edu (Garth Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Font Substitution
Summary: Answers
Message-ID: <2397@byzantium.cs.swarthmore.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 89 03:04:28 GMT
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[ Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. ]

    In article <203@Portia.Stanford.EDU hi@portia.UUCP (Mustafa YILMAZ) writes:
    
    I know that when you try to print a Bit-Mapped Font from a
    LaserWriter, it substitutes it with one of the LaserWriter fonts.  My
    question is, "How does the LaserWriter decide which LW font to
    substitute for any fonts?"  How can I force a LaserPrinter to print a
    specific font (e.g. Times) instead of a bit-mapped font ?
    
Font substitution does not apply to all bitmap fonts, just a few
well-known pairs, for example New York -> Times and Geneva -> Helvetica.
This is done by the LW driver, btw, not the printer.  I don't understand
your second question - why not just use the Times font?

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