Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: re: TeX on LN01S and LN03 Message-ID: <1373@uw-beaver> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 05:24:46 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1373 Posted: Wed Jul 3 05:24:46 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 01:05:28 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 27 From: lucas@cmu-psy-a (pete lucas) The LN01, LN01S, and Xerox 2700 all use the same font format. The LN03 uses a completely different one called the "DEC Common Font File Format". It is an elaborate and quite general scheme with provisions for kerning information, detailed machine-usable descriptions of character and font attributes, printer<->screen font mapping for WYSIWYG applications, and lots more (although much of this is not supported in the LN03 itself). This format is also used for screen fonts in recent DEC workstation offerings. DEC keeps threatening to publish this format, but I haven't seen it available yet. All DEC laser printers use ANSI escape sequences. The LN01S is virtually identical to the LN01 with Tektronix graphics emulation added. The LN03 is also very similar, except that it is somewhat more capable (e.g., you can selectively delete fonts on the LN03 but not the LN01) and some of the defaults are different. We were able to make SCRIBE work on the LN03 with only a few minor database changes to the LN01 support. The LN03 can do bitmaps at 150dpi, but is subject to band-buffer imposed complexity limitations. Finally, if you plan on running your LN01S at high volume, let me suggest that you compute the number of LN03s you could purchase each year for the price of the DEC service contract (including heavy-usage charges) on the LN01S. -PAL