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From: robert@shangri-la.gatech.edu (Robert Viduya)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Downloadable fonts for LPS40?
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Date: 15 Feb 89 23:31:35 GMT
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> 
> Does anyone have any information on when DIGITAL will be supporting
> _downloadable_ fonts for the LPS40?  I would very much like to be able
> to take advantage of the millions of fonts available for (smaller)
> PostScript engines on a big, fat, FAST PostScript engine...
> 
> 

I don't know about DEC but I just saw a recent announce from Adobe in their
newsletter, Colophon.  The announcement describes a package called "VAX/VMS
Typeface Pack 1" and I quote:

	"... a collection of 14 typefaces designed to be downloaded from
	VAX/VMS hardware to PostScript DEC printers.  The VAX/VMS Typeface
	Pack 1, coupled with the fonts built into PostScript DEC printers
	gives VAX users access to the 35 standard Adobe fonts available on
	many other PostScript language devices."

So it seems that if DEC doesn't know how to download fonts to their own
printers, Adobe does.  Contact Adobe at (800) 344-8335.

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Robert Viduya					   robert@shangri-la.gatech.edu
Office of Computing Services
Georgia Institute of Technology					 (404) 894-6296
Atlanta, Georgia	30332-0275