Re: GS generated PostScript files - Fonts

[mattd@apple.com (Matt Deatherage)]

In article <2jegjq$m7g@eis.calstate.edu>, gachenb@eis.calstate.edu (Greg R.
Achenbach) wrote:

> 1.	What version of PostScript is included in the 6.0.1 LaserWriter 
> 	driver?  Is it Level 1 or Level 2?  What version number?

PostScript is not "in" the driver.  The driver translates what the
application draws into PostScript code, which the printer executes.
The code the driver generates is "portable" -- it works on either
level of PostScript.

>  How can I use the LW resident 
> 	fonts in my GS generated PostScript files without having it default to 
> 	Courier or Helvetica (or having it download the bit-mapped images of 
> 	the GS fonts, yuk)?

How fonts work is documented in Apple IIgs Technical Note #67, or more
likely in user manuals somewhere.

> 
> Please forgive me if these questions are covered in the System 6 manual.  
> I dont have a manual since I got my 6.0.1 via ftp.  BTW, where would 
> I get this manual, and is it worth it?

I don't see why anyone should bother to spend any money at all on the
Apple II when it's so much easier to demand free access by ftp and then
ask tons of questions that the books might answer.

(Translation:  YES, get the books.  Don't waste people's time asking
them to look up things in books you don't want to buy.)

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