Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!samsung!munnari.oz.au!basser!metro!natmlab.dap.csiro.au!ditsyda!macuni!mqccsunc!ifarqhar From: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.OZ (Ian Farquhar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Junk=Amiga Wordprocessors & Amiga PrinterDrivers Summary: Printer fonts vs. screen fonts: a solution Keywords: fonts, MicroSoft Windows, Printers, Postscript Message-ID: <76@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> Date: 2 Jan 90 12:12:21 GMT References: Sender: news@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz Reply-To: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mq.oz (Ian Farquhar) Organization: Macquarie University, Sydney Lines: 36 In article rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) writes: >One thing that I noticed in your post you mentioned that Excellence! messed >up on the printing of your document (in ascII mode) this is because ascii mode >is for quick drafts, to get the printing to come out right you have to print >in postscript, or 'normal (graphics mode of the printer) mode' since all >printers will have different built in fonts, and unless you use a font with >the same characteristics as the printer's font then you wont get the same >number of characters per line etc. The Mac gets around this by forcing use >to use an image writer or laser write alaways and thus you have to print using >a graphic mode rather then using the printers ascii font. > >-Rick Golembiewski rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu Actually, I was not terribly impressed by excellence!'s PostScript support, but then I have yet to find a program on the PC or the Amiga that generates truly good PostScript code. Incidentally, PostScript very rarely prints bitmapped images, it generates bitmaps using device and resolution independent operators. On the subject of printer fonts. MS Windows actually has a very good idea (yes, it does have a couple of good points) concerning the way it maps a screen font to a target device. Each device (say, a printer driver) has a set of font characteristics (character set, serifed, family etc) that are available to the OS. The screen fonts have a similar set of characteristics. When both are combined, the printer driver is able to find the closest font in the printer to the one being displayed on the screen. An elegant solution to a difficult problem. Incidentally, CBM, when are you giving us a Postscript printer driver? Ian Farquhar Office of Computing Services Macquarie University Sydney, Australia. Dz41