[comp.sys.mac.system] System 7: Slow Printing/Huge Files

steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) (06/21/91)

Regarding recent discussions about slowness in printing,
our campus Mac specialist sent me the following:

	Yes, the 7.0 print manager does use built-in PostScript fonts in
	preference to TrueType (and bitmap) fonts.

	And yes, the PostScript generated by the LaserWriter driver is
	bigger, because it is always sending the (what used to be
	called) LaserPrep file.

	This is now done so that Laser-Wars no longer is a problem
	with future releases.


Steve Goldfield
UC Berkeley