greid@ondine.COM (Glenn Reid) (08/11/88)
Well, since I sent a long message, I should probably field the questions, too. Forgive me if none of this is of interest. > How much interpreter overhead goes into decryption in comparison to > a non-ABOBE font? I'm not being troublesome...just curious ;-) None. The interpreter doesn't do the decryption. It is part of the communications filter, sort of. > Our graphic arts department consists of 9 Mac SE's, an LW+, and a L-300. > Each SE has a 20 meg internal hard disk. We use a relatively large number > of fonts in producing custom labels and price marking products. These fonts > 'exist' in three places in my understanding. > > 1) Bit mapped representations are installed in the SYSTEM > > 2) 'Printer' fonts dragged to the SYSTEM folder from the font release > disks so they can be 'called up' by an application for downloading. > > 3) Pre-rasterized versions installed on the L-300 harddisk > Question: Why do we need the printer fonts in each SYSTEM folder if > they are _there_ on the L-300 harddisk? You don't. If they are on the hard disk in the L-300 or other printer, then they do not need to be downloaded. The screen fonts are used to compose the document, of course, and the FOND resource contains the PostScript name of the font. The Printing Manager determines at print time whether or not the printer has the font (it does look on the hard disk). It only downloads the font from your System folder if it can't find it on the printer. Some of us at Adobe use this setup, and nobody has any fonts in their own System folders. I don't know enough to comment on how smart the screen font manager is, but I do know that the less information the application has, the more guesswork goes into line layout, and you can get some spacing surprises if you don't have the right width tables (which are part of the FOND resources). > I know this is very long winded but its worth roughly 27 meg of work space > to me. Recommendation: keep the screen fonts, delete the System folder fonts, and put them all on the hard disk in your printer. -- Glenn Reid Adobe Systems Incorporated