limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) (08/04/90)
I really think I'm being a fair kind of guy. I'm giving you all plenty of time to get together and coordinate this. A small donation from everyone would be fine ... :-) (memories of JJ, huh?) Now the serious part. I wish I had a PostScript laser printer with the TeX fonts built in as native fonts. Maybe with a built-in 100 meg hard drive to store them all. You know, every commonly used font you can imagine at just about every realistic size. In fact, it could just have most of the sizes, but have a mode where it would run metafont to generate a requested font that didn't yet exist. This font would be stored onto it's harddrive. When the drive fills it could just delete the least-recently-used font. Actually, it doesn't have to be PostScript, it could just accept the .DVI file and deal. Now back to reality. Has anyone attempted to do this with a centralized laser printer? Configure a small Unix machine that would accept .DVI files and "take it from there"*. You'd only need the fonts on that one machine, and when users wanted a new font you could metafont it for them. Anyone attempted this? -Tom * -- "Take it from there" is defined as "run a DVItoPS program and send it to the attached printer". -- tlimonce@drew.edu Tom Limoncelli +1 201 408 5389 tlimonce@drew.uucp tlimonce@drew.Bitnet My new philosophy on life: limonce@pilot.njin.net "Vogue 'til you puke"