>A while back, I think Victor and some other people mentioned how they
>issues when printing, something about fonts being changed and so on...
>
>I came across this URL, perhaps the fonts here will solve the problem?
>http://scruffy.cs.umd.edu:8080/seanl/Newton/Fonts/
>There is information down at the bottom on making one's own fonts, which
>might be of use to the persons seeking a font with the Euro.
IIRC, Sean posted about why the issue occurs (you get kinda ugly
bitmap fonts when printing to a non-postcript printer- basically, most
printers that you would use the PrintPack cable to print to). If that's
the thread you are referring to, anyway.
I thought I had a neat fix, until I tested it, and a neat
hypothesis died an ugly death to to a stupid fact. :) As a researcher, I'm
used to that!
I'd been faxing a lot with my desktop, and the (desktop) fax
drivers, when "printed" to from an application, render as a .pict, quite
nicely. I thought that just maybe, the fax drivers for the MP would make a
nice postscript rendering of the note text, and then that stored rendering
would print nicely on non-postscript printers, using the printpack- if the
rendering were stored internally as a .pict format or something.
But no, even sending a fax as "later" then printing the saved fax
from within the outbox, gives pretty pixellated output for some fonts- it's
actually identical to just printing the note from notepad via printpack.
That makes sense as since you can edit a pending fax, it's still
stored as a editable item, not as a rendered .pict. I need to actually
fax my test page and see how it comes out on the other end, I've not looked
at an actual fax output of all these fonts.
However, of the 15 fonts I installed for testing on the MP, some
looked pretty good when printed via the PrintPack, onto my HP laserjet 5L.
Simple 9 pt, 10pt ( 9 is better), 12pt
Fancy 10 pt
Tekton 9 pt
Avant Garde 10 pt
Look just about OK, I wouldn't be too embarrassed to print those and give
them to a colleague (a colleague with good vision or good bifocals, anyway
:)
Courier 12
Fancy 12
Helvitica Narrow 12
Were the least pixellated of the 12 point fonts, in my opinion. If you
play around, you might find something acceptable for use in your workplace
(I forget who asked about this originally a month or so ago, but recall
that was the problem- printing documents for colleagues that didn't look
"rough").
I was disappointed the fax/print solution did not work, but not surprised.
Brian
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