cczdao@clan.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) (07/21/90)
we use PostScript printers as TeX output devices and currently use mainly Computer Modern fonts. for each TeX document, there are a (potentially large) number of bitmaps sent to the printer describing the individual glyphs used in the document. with a 9600 baud serial line and a large document, this can be time consuming, so i'd like to be able to download the most-frequently-used fonts to the printers to store on their disks (the printers being an Agfa P3400PS with an internal 20Mb disk and a LaserWriter II NTX with an external 20Mb). i'm NOT attempting to generate outline fonts from METAFONT output, just to store as a printer resident font all the bitmaps for the characters in a font, as they would be sent to the printer from the DVI driver... i use James Clark's dvitops. can this be done? if so, how? grateful thanks offered for all solutions. - dave - David Osborne