gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) (03/20/91)
My message was too negative and I tried to cancel it at the news server. This did not work. So let me apologize for criticizing Apple so heavily. Someone at Apple responded to an earlier message. > From: dowdy@apple.com (Tom Dowdy) > Subject: Re: TrueType glitch? > Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. > Status: RO > Did you try this with the new LaserWriter driver (6.1) that comes > with the TrueType disks? (yes I used the 6.1 driver, the one with the ampersand picture) > The rules for downloading 'sfnt's are: > - use the ROM fonts > - if no ROM fonts are available, download the PostScript font, if available > - if no PostScript font is found, download the sfnt if the RIP > directly supports TrueType > - if the RIP doesn't support TrueType directly download a patch and > the sfnt if the printer can handle it > - convert to type 1 font and download if the printer can't take the patch > - convert to type 3 outlines and download if the printer can't take the > type 1s > - give up and use the bitmap... > I don't think that the last step ever needs to get hit. > But, if you are using the old LaserWriter driver, all you are going > to see are the first 2 and last step, which is your problem. ................... next message ............................... > [It does not matter whether you are printing to a file or to a real > printer.] The driver doesn't query the device, it sends an adobe > approved format that works on all devices, with the swaps being done > on the device. > The format of the font is actually all encompasing - it contains the 'sfnt', > the type 1 and the type 3 - the type 3 actually isn't much data, as > it is more of a "mutation" of the data within the 'sfnt' itself. > The font can be large, remember that PostScript requires that the > data be sent as hex, so 2 fonts may very well be 450K or so. > Tom Dowdy Internet: dowdy@apple.COM > Apple Computer MS:81EQ UUCP: {sun,voder,amdahl,decwrl}!apple!dowdy > 20525 Mariani Ave AppleLink: DOWDY1 > Cupertino, CA 95014 > "The 'Ooh-Ah' Bird is so called because it lays square eggs." In my case it seemed that *one* font was 450K. Are you saying that every truetype print job will contain (1) a laserwriter assembly patch and, for every font printed -- (2) the 'sfnt' (3) a type 1 postscript font (4) changes to make it a type 3 postscript font if necessary What is the exact size of (1), and (2) + (3) + (4) for each font (times, symbol, courier, helvetica)? Is it really 450K per font? Can you convince the postscript driver, when it writes a disk file, that truetype postscript fonts will be found on the printer, so they (and the assembly patch) can be omitted from the download file? Don Gillies | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gillies@cs.uiuc.edu | Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------ "UGH! WAR! ... What is it GOOD FOR? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" - the song "WAR" by Edwin Starr, circa 1971 --