[comp.lang.postscript] Downloading PostScript Font -- the answer

jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) (02/10/91)

Folks -
	Thanks to Jim Cornacchia (ultb!jmc3113@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu), I
have the answer to the PostScript fonts downloading problem. The
answer is very simple.
	Take the Font file in question: MyFont.ps or just MyFont (
as it is usually found in the .font dictionary), you will have
to make one editing adjustment to it:

	Using vi, emacs, or Edit, open the file. The top will have
a heading composed of of a couple lines with % marks at the beginning.
At the end of the last %-marked line and before the first line of
PostScript program, insert this line:
	 serverdict begin 0 exitserver
	
	As Jim said, this will "cause the printer to exit the server loop 
and preserve the file." Then save this font under another name with
a .ps name to it (for example, a.ps). Then, from the shell type
	localhost> lpr a.ps

	This will download the font to the printer. Then you can
start using documents with that font in it and all will work. :-)

	- jiro nakamura


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