[comp.text.tex] Problems with LN03 and metafont character

fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) (06/15/90)

	I would like to know what the limit to size of character in a font
download to a DEC LN03 printer is.  I have now designed out company logo
using metafont.  I can print it out on the postscript printers okay.  When
I try to use the LN03DVI or DVI2LN3 programs, the file sent to the printer
gives me a '12 - Illegal codes in down-line-loaded fonts' error.  I am using
a character approximately 0.375in tall and about 1.5in long.  If I change the
mf file so the character is 0.1in tall and 0.4in long, it prints!  If I use
the bitmap capabilities of the LN03Plus, it prints for both sizes but the
download file is HUGE!  AM I running into a limitation to the LN03 or is there
a problem with the conversion programs?

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