edmoy@opal.berkeley.edu (06/30/87)
I am writing a Unix program to convert the Macintosh PostScript file created by the Cntrl-K trick in the LaserWriter print dialog box to a form useable by the lpr/TranScript line printer software on Unix. This program (which I'll post when it is done), changes the normally permanently memory resident code produced by LaserPrep into temporary resident code and does font coordinating as required. To do all this and not require all users to have exactly the same version of the LaserWriter driver/LaserPrep, the program has to figure out what version is being used, and munch on the file as appropriate. Anyways, I was testing the program with version 3.0, 3.1 and 4.0 and noticed that in my test case, 3.0 and 3.1 both do the font Chicago Italic correctly but 4.0 doesn't (the letters are not slanted, but the character spacing seems about right). I tried my test with a LaserWriter directly connected to my Mac and using 4.0 and the same problem occurred (so it's not my program). The test case was a MacDraw file with fonts, boxes, lines, curves, etc. Anyone else have the same problem? Edward Moy Academic Computing Services University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 edmoy@opal.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!opal!edmoy P.S. Does anyone know if there are versions between 3.1 and 4.0?