From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 14:46:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16476 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:46:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from dn800e0.fingerhut.com (dn800e0-ext.fingerhut.com [204.221.45.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA16465 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:45:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from dn800e0.fingerhut.com (root@localhost) by dn800e0.fingerhut.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA02114; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:47:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from seag.fingerhut.com (GF007E0.SEAG.fingerhut.com [151.210.140.7]) by dn800e0.fingerhut.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA02110; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:47:07 -0600 (CST) Received: from gf006e0.fingerhut.com. by seag.fingerhut.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA08353; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:45:55 -0600 Received: by gf006e0.fingerhut.com. (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA18782; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:45:51 -0600 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:45:51 -0600 Message-Id: <9703142245.AA18782@gf006e0.fingerhut.com.> From: Bruce Albrecht To: Mark Mayo Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Poscript on an Brother HL760 ? In-Reply-To: References: <3328248E.5F52@fsl.noaa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.68) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Mayo writes: > 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 :-) If you think the GS fonts are crap, and just want the basic font set that all PS printers have (Times, Helvetica, etc.), buy Adobe Type Manager (ATM) for Win95 (preferably the CDROM) from Adobe for $49, which gives you the basic 17 fonts + 13 other fonts. There's also the Bitstream 500 Font CD for < $50 (although I don't think the metrics are a perfect match between Bitstream's Swiss & Dutch (equivalent to Helvetica & Times, respectively), or even the Corel Mega Gallery, ~$69, which contains 1000 fonts including nearly all of the Bitstream 500 font CD + another 350 Bitstream fonts. If you've got Corel Draw 4 or greater, it's got all the fonts in the Bitstream 500 font CD, too. If you use the Bitstream fonts, you just need to alias them properly. For that matter, if you go to computer liquidation sales, ham fests, and the like, you can often pick up the OEM ATM packages which have been separated from various PS printers for cheap (<$10). These packages have all of the fonts that are standard in the printer, which is usually the 17 or 35 basic fonts in a PS printer.