Re: [MacPerl] Downloading fonts to printer...

["Jefferson R. Lowrey" <lowrey@mailbag.com>]

At 9:13 AM +0100 5/14/99, Alan Fry wrote:
>
>There is a script called 'sendps' in 'MacPerl Ÿ:macscripts' which will
>probably do much of what you want, or at least provide you with a good
>starting point for development.
>

Yes.  That is a good starting point.

>it will print to screen the PS names of all the LaserWriter's resident fonts.

Cool.

>
>I haven't ever tried sending Type1 fonts to a printer via MacPerl, but I
>can't see why you couldn't dispatch one to 'Dev:Printer' in a similar
>fashion. I don't know the PS routine for adding a font to the FontDict, but
>I guess it's to be found in the PS Reference somewhere.

Oh darn.  An excuse to buy a postscript reference.  Drat. :-)

>
>Hope this helps,
>

It does help.  But, I've still got some what I hope are still MacPerl
questions...

1) How do I find all printers on the network that are postscript capable?
     My first thought on this is to do a brute force approach.  Find all
printers, send postscript to them and trap for errors.

2) Since I do know what printers are on the network, and which ones are
postscript capable, and which of those I want to monitor the fonts of, how
do I use that to redirect Dev:Printer to some particular printer device?

-Jeff Lowrey



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