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How do I use built-in fonts in a Postscript printer (Brother HL-5250DN)
I am using a Brother Postscript printer with the CUPS 'driver' from my
Mac. Most of my questions are not specific to this printer. (1) How does an application determine which fonts are built-in to the printer, and therefore do not need to be sent to the printer along with the text? (2) Is there a list of font substitutions stored somewhere (can't find it in the PPD) so is it stored in the printer? The list of built-in fonts printed by the printer diagnostics does not include the standard Postscript fonts, but include some fonts with very similar (indistinguishable?) shapes, which are presumably Brother's 'emulations' of the standard fonts. Presumably these are printed when an application calls for one of the standard fonts, so where is the list of substitutions? (3) What is the actual list of substitutions for the Brother printer? This page http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-l...-Jul/2890.html says that the replacements appear to be Adobe Brother ================== ===================== AvantGarde Atlanta Bookman Brussels Courier Brougham Helvetica Helsinki Helvetica-Narrow Helsinki-Narrow NewCenturySchoolbook Copenhagen [? not too sure of this one] Palatino Portugal Symbol BR Symbol Times Tennessee ZapfChanceryMedItalic CalgaryMediumItalic ZapfDingbats BR Dingbats but this just seems to be a guess based on visual examination. (4) There are some built-in fonts that do not correspond to the standard Postscript fonts (like Connecticut which is a script font and Oklahoma which is sans serif with quite a large contrast between thick and thin strokes) so how do I use these - Brother don't seem to provide any fonts on their installation disc? I have tried speaking to the Brother help desk, but all they said was that the build-in fonts are really for MS-DOS applications, and Windows applications don't really use them because they print through GDI. If I wanted to print some of the built-in fonts, then I should just Google for the font names and he was sure that I could just download the fonts or something similar. After trying to ask different questions for about an hour I just gave up. Tim. |
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