fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) (08/06/90)
I would like to know if a print spooler exists that has some way of checking that the required fonts have already been downloaded to the printer. A way to do this is described in chapters 10 (Printer Queries) and 12 (Writing a Print Spooler) of Adobe's "PostScript Language Program Design" (green book). Basically, I need my spooler to do anything but print the document if the font is not in the printer. Possibilities include printing an error message on the printer, or logging an error message, or displaying an error message on the workstation console. I am wondering if - there is an upgrade or patch to the software I have that does this. - there is some other program, preferably public domain that does this. Software: pscomm.c 2.2 87/11/17 (in Transcript 2.1) Sun pcnfd.c 1.4 (c) 1986 (in Sun PCNFS 3.0) T3 word processor r2.3 Post the answer or send me e-mail (and all flames and inquiries) by 8/19/90 and I'll summarize. My initial posting of this question resulted in one inquiry, but no information about existing software that solves the problem. Brian Fitzgerald