jiro@shaman.uucp (Jiro Nakamura) (02/07/91)
Does anyone know how to download Postcript fonts from the NeXT to a printer? I have a PostScript printer (Canon LBP-8) hooked up to my NeXT via the serial port, but I haven't had much success in downloading fonts. Is there a special procedure one must do? I did the obvious thing of just cat-ing the font to the printer directly (cat font.ps > /dev/ttyb) but that didn't do much, the printer munched on it and promptly forgot about the font when I tried to print something. Any clues anyone? - jiro nakamura shaman!jiro@uunet.uu.net -- Jiro Nakamura uunet!shaman!jiro Shaman Consulting (607) 253-0687 VOICE "Bring your dead, dying shamans here!" (607) 253-7809 FAX/Modem
glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) (02/09/91)
In article <1991Feb6.162711.1014@shaman.uucp> jiro@shaman.uucp (Jiro Nakamura) writes: >Does anyone know how to download Postcript fonts from the NeXT to a printer? >I have a PostScript printer (Canon LBP-8) hooked up to my NeXT via the >serial port, but I haven't had much success in downloading fonts. > Is there a special procedure one must do? I did the obvious thing >of just cat-ing the font to the printer directly (cat font.ps > /dev/ttyb) >but that didn't do much, the printer munched on it and promptly forgot >about the font when I tried to print something. You need to precede the font by a short bit of PostScript that will cause the font to stay downloaded until you power it off. Below is the canonical form of that bit of PostScript, although I don't know anything about the Canon LBP-8 (is it Adobe PostScript?): %! serverdict begin 0 exitserver %!PS-AdobeFont-2.0 % font goes here -- Glenn Reid RightBrain Software glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us NeXT/PostScript developers ..{adobe,next}!heaven!glenn 415-851-1785 (fax 851-1470)
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (02/12/91)
In article <417@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes: >In article <1991Feb6.162711.1014@shaman.uucp> jiro@shaman.uucp (Jiro Nakamura) writes: >>Does anyone know how to download Postcript fonts from the NeXT to a printer? >%! >serverdict begin 0 exitserver Gee, Mr. PostScript, shouldn't that be %!PS-Adobe-2.0 ExitServer %%EndComments %%BeginExitServer: 0 serverdict begin 0 exitserver ... %%EndExitServer %%EOF ? :-) Um, why has no one mentioned the "fontloader" utility described on pp. 180-181 of Network and System Administration? -=EPS=-
mikec@vs04wor.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) (02/12/91)
>Um, why has no one mentioned the "fontloader" utility described >on pp. 180-181 of Network and System Administration? > -=EPS=- Now that you mention it, I tried using fontloader to my HP LJ3 PS, and the file I sent printed in Courier anyway! Anyone else had similar problems? MikeC -- _________________________________________________________ Michael D. Callaghan, MDC Designs, University of Maryland mikec@wam.umd.edu