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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>
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Subject: Re: Poscript on an Brother HL760 ?
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On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Mark Mayo wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Sean Kelly wrote:
> 
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> 
> This is definately by only complaint with Ghostscript.. the fonts really
> suck in a large way..  Are there any alternatives out there with better
> fonts? Can you even purchase better fonts somewhere? I have a HP DeskJet
> (660C) - is there a way I can get good looking fonts under FreeBSD, with a
> PCL thingy? Lately, the only reason I boot WinNT is for printing - if I
> had better printing under FreeBSD I'd probably newfs the NT drive and be a
> happy camper :-)

Take a look at the "fonts tutorial":

http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/fonts/fonts.html

It has tips on where to find fonts and how to install them...

> 
> TIA,
> -Mark
> 

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Nadav