dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill) (09/21/89)
Thanks for all the excellent replies I received to my request for user-level font information. My understanding now is that some printer's error handlers are configured to automatically substitute a known font for any unknown fonts. For example, LaserWriters substitute Courier for unrecognized fonts. First question: how/where is this error handler defined? For LaserWriters and others this is apparently built-in somehow. If a printer doesn't come that way, is there any way to permanently change it? I'm sure each print-job/ps-program could set it to whatever it wants, right? Second question: is there any way to alias one font to another? Like, say I don't have Helvetica-Condensed; is there any way, short of modifying the PostScript file, to get the printer to substitute Helvetica? Thanks. -- Dave Sill (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)