Feature Sought
Tripp:
I know a few service bureaus that don't have the full Adobe library loaded on
their RIPs because they use multiple libraries. One bureau has enough RIPs that
they have Bitstream on one, Adobe on two others and are planning a fourth for
URW. Another shop has all the printer fonts on their Mac and they print
everything with the old Command-K routine and spool down to the RIP. If for
some reason the printer font ain't there, you could get a substitution going.
I've got one for you. Had a Quark file come in last night. One of the guys at
the shop downloaded the Bitstream Novarese fonts to disc. Printed the job fro
Quark, the RIP cycled and then when it should have printed the job, it just
returned to "0" as if everything had gone okay. No error message. No printed
job.
Printing to file resulted in a PostScript error (something useless like
"no-string-val"). Finally, after all sorts of contortions, I isolated the
problem at the RIP, removed the Bitstream fonts from the RIP disk and placed
them in memory. The job ran fine (and, at $28 for two hours of my time, the
shop made a fortune).
Anyone hazard a guess as to what the hell happened? Obviously, I'll always load
the non-Adobe fonts into memory, but we've loaded Bitstream to disc before with
no problems. Just curious.
–jon