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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
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[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.