Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Font Downloading
From: Les Barstow (lbarstow@entire.com)
Date: Fri Mar 26 1999 - 08:52:12 EST
Albert Max Lai wrote:
>
> On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Les Barstow wrote:
>
> > Does Netatalk have the ability to accept Font downloads, assuming the
> > backend
>
> Yes it does. It seems that they are just embedded into the middle of the
> postscript. We are running an asun variety of netatalk on a bunch of
> machines, and I've managed to print a document with well over 60 random
> fonts that were not on the destination printer. (We were doing this as a
> test to see what fonts we could support in our facilities). You have to be
> careful that the driver that you are using does support font downloading
> correctly though. We had a problem with an old laserwriter driver, so we
> switched to an HP Laserjet driver, which ended up breaking when we
> upgraded to MacOS 8.5.1. The LaserWriter 8.6 driver works as far as we can
> tell though. (We hate the desktop printers though.)
>
> > interpretter supports them? I am currently using netatalk-1.4b2, but am
> > looking
> > to move to the asun versions.
I probably mis-stated the question... Can I use Adobe Font Manager to
download fonts using Netatalk? My backend interpretter (JAWS from 5D)
supports this feature provided the PPD specifies a hard drive in the
printer
(the HP 5Si Mopier PPD does...). This is important for encrypted fonts
such
as Kanji fonts from AsiaSoft, which will not embed in PostScript print
files.
TIA,
Les Barstow
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