Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 00:40:55 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poscript on an Brother HL760 ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970314003622.18855A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <3328248E.5F52@fsl.noaa.gov>
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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Sean Kelly wrote: > > Most 'postscript' printers are slow and stupid. Ghostscript OTOH gets to > > run on your CPU (how many Pentium-powered printers?) and you can update > > it as postscript conventions change. > > All true. Ghostscript, however, does not have a decent set of fonts. > > And I still use my Panasonic KXP-4455 (powered by a Motorola 68000 > running at less than 7MHz or so, quite possibly the slowest PostScript > printer in existence) to process PostScript output because it makes a > Times Roman headline font look 100 times better than the public-domain > Times Roman accompanying Ghostscript. 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 :-) TIA, -Mark > > -- > Sean Kelly > NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov > Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com RingZero Comp. http://vinyl.quickweb.com/mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GCS/O d- s+ a-- C++ UB+++$ P+ L- E--- W++ N+ K- w++(---) O- M- !V PS+ PE Y++ PGP+ t !5 X+ R- tv b++ DI+ D++ G+ e+(*) h--- r++ y+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Typically, I don't use JAVA -- I think that strong typing is for weak minds (and lazy compiler/interpreter writers)." -- Terry Lambert
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