Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!decwrl!adobe!bezanson From: bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Does Transcript support font downloading? Message-ID: <1258@adobe.UUCP> Date: 3 Oct 89 23:05:47 GMT References: <17753@bellcore.bellcore.com> Reply-To: bezanson@adobe.UUCP (Brian Bezanson) Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View Lines: 34 [Note: This reply is being posted at large because Stan's mail system had problems - maybe it will be useful for others.] In article <17753@bellcore.bellcore.com> you write: >Does Transcript support font downloading? The PostScript >page-description structuring conventions are clearly designed to >support such a function. > >If so, can a TranScript user buy Adobe fonts and install them on the >(UNIX) printer server? > >If not, why not? Stan, Since a PostScript font is basically some PostScript code, you can use transcript to download it to the printer. Currently we sell fonts for the Mac & MS-DOS environments and recently VMS and NeXT. These formats are all encripted in some way to protect the font data (the people we license the fonts from request that in the contracts). What needs to be done is to decode the font and then download that code. We do provide information on how to write a decoder and you can do the rest. The decoded file can't be stored on disk because that would violate the agreement, etc... But then just bringing the font to a UNIX box would violate that. Frame (makers of FrameMaker ships a utility to do the Mac/PC conversion and downloading - and they have a special license w/us to do it legally). So you can either do it yourself (with help from documents from our file server) or get the utilities with FrameMaker (for a Sun if that is what you're using). Hope that answers your question and provides some help. -- Brian Bezanson bezanson@adobe.com Adobe Systems Incorporated The opinions expressed above are my own and may not represent those of Adobe.