[comp.lang.postscript] More dumb font questions

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.
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Dave Sill (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)