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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ATM
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Date: 2 Feb 90 21:47:42 GMT
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In-reply-to: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)

In article <1990Feb1.174039.13355@intercon.com>, amanda@mermaid (Amanda Walker) writes:
>In article <1760@esquire.UUCP>, baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
>writes:
>> Does it also fix the problem of forcing fonts to be downloaded when
>> you save a print job to a PostScript file via cmd-F or cmd-K?
>
>This has nothing to do with ATM.  The LaserWriter driver, when sending
>output to a file, has no idea what fonts are available, and includes
>the PostScript version (if present) of any font that the document references.
>
>What would be more useful than a hack in ATM would be a checkbox (or yet
>another magic key sequence) in the LW driver that would tell it not to include
>fonts in the PostScript file.

True, though the probably is exacerbated by ATM.  Since I don't have a
LaserWriter at home, I save the PostScript output to a file and upload
to our printer at work.  

Before ATM, I didn't need to keep the printer font files around at
all.  So because ATM requires the printer font files to be in the
System Folder, the Mac printing software "downloads" them
unconditionally, and all of my PostScript output files end up around
200K -- even the ones that just use boring old Times and Helvetica.

Of course, your solution is the better one, since strictly speaking
it's Apple's "fault" that all the fonts are included in the cmd-F
output.  But Adobe could solve the problem as well if it could be
installed to look in a special font folder, rather than only in the
System Folder.

Given that Apple isn't going to be making any changes to the System
any time soon, I thought it would be nice if Adobe would provide this
feature, at least as a stop-gap measure.

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