| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 6 Aug 2000 at 10:31:58 |
| Subject: | Re: Printing text on newer printers |
On 05-Aug-00, Matthew Allatt wrote:
> The only trouble I have with that is that ghostscript takes so much
> longer to print - The reason why I want a decent font, something like
> the Courier postscript font (in APDF) is for reasons of speed. I
> really don't want to have to wait for ages for ghostscript to churn
> out a page, when turboprint is actually much quicker at this sort of
> thing.
>
> Are there any converter programs out there that can convert PS Fonts
> to intellifont (preferably) or bitmaps, that I can point turboprint
> at?
TypeSmith will convert PostScript fonts to Intellifont, and so will a
utility that came with ProPage.
But the loss of speed is due to the _mode_ of printing. If you send a
bitmap image to a printer it will always be slow. For plain text, you
send the actual ASCII characters and the printer does the work.
Best bet is probably a laser printer, I think they still have text mode.
My HP Laserjet does, and I use it to print text files from DOpus. Very
useful when you are programming and you want to go and sit in a
comfortable chair and mull over the code.
Regards
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