fellow managers:
below please find the replies i received to my original posting and the
posting itself.
as this problem has still not yet been solved, any help from people
"_of knowledge_" who did not respond the frist time around would be most
appreciated.
will summarize again as warranted....
thanx,
b c++'ing u,
%-) sjs
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Stefan Jon Silverman - President SJS Associates, N.A., Inc.
572 Chestnut Street
Distributed Systems Architecture & Implementation San Francisco, Ca. 94133
Phone: 415 989 2741
E-mail: sjs@sjsinc.com Cell: 415 298 6568
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>From sjs Thu Apr 20 23:10:56 1995
To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov
Subject: NewSPrint font installation
fellow managers:
i realize that this forum prides itself on terseness but the problem
i am having requires a few more than the usual number of words to describe.
to wit:
my configuration:
machine: sparc 2 clone (mobius)
os: SunOS 4.1.3
display: X11.R6
window manager: motif 1.2
NewSPrint: 2.0
print server software: small_openwin
printer: SparcPrinter w/ sbus card
situation:
i recently received a new font from a friend who does font-design for
a living. the font is a modified helvetica along the lines of avante-garde or
optima. it was developed on a MAC and also runs fine under MS-Windows. the
following is my situation...any help would be appreciated and i will summerize
when a reasonable number of suggestions / answers flow in.
o took the straight .afb files and installed them in ghostview /
ghostscript where they worked just fine w/ a sample file
o used the framemaker conversion utilities and got them to
display in frame (very ugly) and print out to a postscript
file that ghostview / ghostscript displayed just fine (in fact,
what i would have expected frame to do...but that's a problem
for another forum...)
o printed sample files and frame postscript files w/out the font
installed under NewSPrint and got the expected courier output
o printed sample file w/ embedded font descriptions and the
NewSPrint software / sbus card thrashed for 10 minutes per
page but eventually printed the right thing (hard to deal w/
if multiple copies are required)
o installed the font in the /usr/newsprint... directories
following the directions in the manual (conversions, adding
them to the description files, etc.) and manifest the following:
- the sample file prints a blank page w/ no error messages
- frame files using this font (and others) leave white-space
where the font should go
- graphics lines (over- / under- strikes / lines) work just
fine but no alpha-numeric characters print
o other utilities capable of eating postscript seem to be able
to eat the files (both sample and frame) w/ no problems.
i understand, from the rumor-mill, that installing fonts that do not
have a formal installation procedure and font license under NewSPrint is
almost impossible. has anybody out there encountered this problem??? any advice
would be appreciated.
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