RE: SUMMARY: PS fonts in FM/NT4

[smurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I still don't understand this... I think. Tell me if this scenario is   
correct... or what's wrong with it:

1) Today I start with a system with no PS fonts, and use a HP Laserjet   
printer using PCL and without a PS card in it. I can therefore only print   
TT fonts, since I have no PS fonts.

2) I install FrameMaker. There are no Times, Helvetica, or Courier fonts   
present. All the sample docs give an error message saying that there were   
missing fonts.

3) I install a PostScript printer driver as discussed in this email.   
Voila, I have a set of basic PS fonts?

4) Next, I install ATM, just ATM without adding any fonts.

5) Now, I will have PostScript versions of Times, Helvetica, and Courier   
on my hard drive, fonts I can use with my PCL Laserjet printer? Is this   
what you are all saying? That the PS driver installed the fonts on my   
hard drive?

I just want to make sure I have this down correctly. Somehow, I have   
never found myself missing these fonts. But when I installed FM and ATM   
on a coworker's machine, the fonts were not there. So all I need to do is   
install a PS Printer Driver, right??? If not, where do I obtain the fonts   
without having to purchase them separately???

Steve Murphy
Senior Documentation Specialist
Adobe Certified Expert/FrameMaker, Acrobat
SOFTWORKS, Inc.
5845 Richmond Highway
Alexandria, VA  22303 USA
(703) 317-8879
smurphy@softworkscc.com

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> At 2/22/99 01:41 PM , Thomas Michanek wrote:
> >I'm still curious as to exactly how the printer driver does
> >this and where the font information is actually stored, but
> >noone has so far managed to explain that. It cannot be the
> >physical printer's built-in Type 1 fonts that are used, since
> >they should need to be rasterized on-screen using ATM, which
> >we don't have. Or am I wrong about this?
>
>
> The printer drivers have several ways of getting font metrics
> information. Obviously, there is ATM which can provide font
> metric information. Font metrics for TrueType fonts are provided
> to the driver by the operating system. For Type 1 fonts that
> are not controlled by ATM, the driver has internal tables of
> the font metrics for all the base 13, base 35, etc. fonts that
> commonly appear in Adobe PostScript printers. The PPD file for
> the particular printer model instructs the driver as to which
> of these standard fonts are in the printer.
>
> BTW, although the Microsoft and Adobe PostScript drivers can
> function without ATM, I would find it very hard to seriously
> use any professional publishing software without the ability
> to see the fonts on-screen.
>
>  - Dov
>
>
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