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From: jeynes@adobe.COM (Ross A. Jeynes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: what version of PS
Keywords: Bold, superscript, italic etc.
Message-ID: <1929@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 90 22:45:40 GMT
References: <2879@ursa.UUCP> <18094@rpp386.cactus.org> <18097@rpp386.cactus.org>
Reply-To: jeynes@adobe.UUCP (Ross A. Jeynes)
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In article <18097@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
>What version of Postscript supports the composite extension.  Are they
>supported in my version 47.0a in the PS-810 ? 

Printers with the composite font extensions currently available only in
Japan.  The Apple LaserWriter NTX-J is an example of a printer with these 
extensions.  Generally, the printers which support composite fonts are more
expensive, since they also include a hard disk or extra RAM to hold the 
composite fonts.  (The composite fonts are quite large; the Kanji character
set supported in our implementation consists of over 7,000 characters per
font.)

Rumor has it that the U.S. may soon see printers with the composite font 
extensions, but I don't know of any that are announced at this time.


Ross Jeynes              
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