#Postscript Code
Hi, I'm still trying to find out why Adobe's Clearface fonts don't print
properly when using MGXPS.DRV, but perfectly with PSCRPT.DRV. In making some
tests with print-to-disk files a few questions cropped up, and I'm hoping that
someone can enlighten me…
First of all, using the same PageMaker file, containing just eight lines of
type (all 8 varieties of Clearface), the file produced by MGXPS.DRV fills two
pages when printed, (sorry, I erased the files before checking the file size)
but the one from PSCRPT.DRV fills FOURTEEN pages! (Both drivers are set to
download the header, and in both cases the fonts have been manually downloaded
to the printer.) Why the difference?
The second questions is about the actual postscript code used to select the
font. I've compared what Ventura produces for Clearface, and could easily tell
where MGXPS.DRV was specifying the wrong font. But PSCRPT.DRV (which, by the
way, produces correct screen and printer results for Clearface) doesn't seem to
actually CALL the Clearface fonts. For example, the first line that should get
printed is "Clearface – Normal" and the second, "Clearface – Italic", and
around where those lines appears in the postscript code is no reference to
Clearface. Here are those lines:
32 0 0 67 67 0 0 1 /ZapfDingbats font
225 218 528 (Clearface – Normal) SB
32 0 0 67 67 0 0 1 /ZapfChancery-MediumItalic /font33 ANSIFont font
67 2 SJ
225 298 412 (Clearface – Italic) SB
Would someone be kind enough to explain that to me please?