LaserPrint
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LaserPrint is of particular importance to me as I do Patent Illustrations, and I have discovered that there is no better printer device than LaserPrint as it bypasses entirely all the limitations of QuickDraw and goes directly to PostScript. Since most all my final output is to PDF for my clients' convenience I save to disk using LaserPrint to create a .PS file and then distill with Acrobat Distiller to produce the PDF. In times past LaserPrint would cause very few fonts to be be distilled properly or use accurate substitutes. Nothing I could do with Distiller would change any of this, and a file saved as PDF directly out of PowerCADD not using LaserPrint would render the fonts accurately. Mark Walker Rhodes |
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Mark Rhodes and I have been going 'round and round' over the issue of fonts and LaserPrint, so I thought this would be a good place to clear the air on this issue. When LaserPrint prints directly to a PostScript printer, often you will get text printed in the Courier font. In order to render a font, the printer must 'know about' the font, and if it is not a font that installed on the printer, or downloaded to the printer's hard disk, then the PostScript interpreter on the printer will substitute the Courier font. In the future, LaserPrint will download the font when printing directly to a printer. When you output file in PostScript format using LaserPrint, any non-PostScript fonts will create problems. If you have a copy of Illustrator handy, open the file with Illustrator, which will tell you which fonts it can't handle and that it is substituting a new PostScript font in its place. Similarly, when you create a PDF file using Distiller, it will substitute a PostScript font if you use a TrueType font. Alfred Scott |
