gt0818a@prism.gatech.EDU (Paul E. Robichaux) (12/05/89)
Since my poor little Plus doesn't have a printer, I've gotten in the habit
of printing PostScript to disk, then uploading the PS to one of our unix
boxes and using macps to print it.
Last week, my copy of ATM and the Plus Pack (thanks, MacConnection!) got here,
and now I notice that my PostScript files are *huge*, i.e. an expansion
in some cases from 30-40k to 340-390k.
Is this because ATM is including the outline fonts from the system folder?
Is there any way to suppress this? Should I just say "to hell with it" and
buy a DeskWriter?
-Paul
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Disclaimer: GT won't admit undergrads have opinions, much less share them w/ me. bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson) (12/06/89)
In article <4082@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0818a@prism.gatech.EDU (Paul E. Robichaux) writes: >Since my poor little Plus doesn't have a printer, I've gotten in the habit >of printing PostScript to disk, then uploading the PS to one of our unix >boxes and using macps to print it. >Last week, my copy of ATM and the Plus Pack (thanks, MacConnection!) got here, >and now I notice that my PostScript files are *huge*, i.e. an expansion >in some cases from 30-40k to 340-390k. >Is this because ATM is including the outline fonts from the system folder? >Is there any way to suppress this? Should I just say "to hell with it" and >buy a DeskWriter? The files do have a copy of the fonts used in your document. Unfortunately with the current ATM there is no way to disable this. Since the font request is from the print driver, ATM is just supplying what is asked for. If ATM were to disable itself from doing this, it would have to be a manual process and could cause problems, i.e. you have font downloading turned off, now are connected to a LaserWriter, the font isn't there, and ATM won't supply it. While the pros and cons of the issue are discussed by the ATM programmers, a "hack" solution was given to me by one of our users and I'll pass it on. ATM locates the outlines it will download by name, but the LaserWriter driver looks for name and file type 'LWFN'. The user found out that by changing the type to something different, like 'xWFN', the LaserWriter driver wouldn't think the font was available, thus it wouldn't ask for it, and the spool file created wouldn't have the font included. His fix was so the font wasn't sent to the spooler, it should be the same solution so it won't be sent to the PostScript disk file. The above instructions are my translation of what a user told me worked for him. I haven't tested it, nor has Adobe, and so I won't vouch for it working - this info is posted only for information and possibly helpful purposes. Hope the above info does work and help users having the previously mentioned problems. -- Brian Bezanson bezanson@adobe.com Adobe Systems Incorporated The opinions expressed above are my own and may not represent those of Adobe.