steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) (04/05/91)
I recently passed on an inaccuracy, by Email, to someone who posted here. I went to see the new LS, for which all the preprocessing is done in the Mac. So I told someone, though I think I qualified it by saying I wasn't sure if it always worked this way, that it might work that way with other printers. This morning I spoke to our local Apple Rep. She isn't totally clear on the technicalities, but apparently more powerful printers do the processing in the printer as with PostScript. However, you don't need any special TrueType capability built into the printer to do it as you do with PostScript. Steve Goldfield College of Engineering UC Berkeley
Charles.E.Dubuque@dartmouth.edu (Charles E. Dubuque) (04/05/91)
According to the TrueType manual, any PostScript printer is sent the TrueType outlines and scaling instructions for processing inside the printer. However, I would assume that since LaserWriter driver 5.2 was written before TrueType was a glimmer in Apple's eye that in order for the printer to process it, it must be running LaserWriter 6.0 or later, although I could be wrong. In that hypothetical case, a LaserPrinter would depend on the computer to provide the 300 dpi bitmap with drivers before 6.0... Chuck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chuck Dubuque ||"It's one thing to think something that seems Dartmouth College || completely impossible. But quite another to HB 4233 Hanover NH || say it..." -- Silent Invasion, book II 03755 || C.Dubuque@Dartmouth.edu || DartmouthUs -not- the Review, but it's close ------------------------------------------------------------------------