I don't know quite where to ask this, but I'll try here:
Do OSX fonts always need to be downloaded on every print job to older Postscript printers (I am thinking especially of the LaserWriters), or is the OSX printing system capable of using older versions of the relevant fonts when stored in ROM on an older printer?
To be more specific, is, say, the Palatino font built into most LaserWriters capable of being used, in whole or in part, by OSX?
It seems to me that the real complicating factor has to be Unicode. Clearly, no Unicode font in OS X.3 or higher can be exactly what you have in a printer from the 1990s, but then, the basic character set that most of us Westerners use 99.9% of the time probably does use essentially the same mathematical descriptions of glyphs today as it did back in the 90s. So does OSX use as many of these built-in glyph descriptions as it can, for speed, or does it simply by-pass them, when it prints to an old printer?
I ask because I am presently putting a scsi disk in a LaserWriter Pro 630, having sourced the unobtanium cable after many years, but am unsure what to download to it via the LaserWriter Utility — whether a set of converted OSX fonts, some Unicode Postscript fonts, or just fonts used in OS9 or earlier.
Anyone here with programming, publishing or graphics experience enough to know how this works, or to be able to hazard an educated guess?
Do OSX fonts always need to be downloaded on every print job to older Postscript printers (I am thinking especially of the LaserWriters), or is the OSX printing system capable of using older versions of the relevant fonts when stored in ROM on an older printer?
To be more specific, is, say, the Palatino font built into most LaserWriters capable of being used, in whole or in part, by OSX?
It seems to me that the real complicating factor has to be Unicode. Clearly, no Unicode font in OS X.3 or higher can be exactly what you have in a printer from the 1990s, but then, the basic character set that most of us Westerners use 99.9% of the time probably does use essentially the same mathematical descriptions of glyphs today as it did back in the 90s. So does OSX use as many of these built-in glyph descriptions as it can, for speed, or does it simply by-pass them, when it prints to an old printer?
I ask because I am presently putting a scsi disk in a LaserWriter Pro 630, having sourced the unobtanium cable after many years, but am unsure what to download to it via the LaserWriter Utility — whether a set of converted OSX fonts, some Unicode Postscript fonts, or just fonts used in OS9 or earlier.
Anyone here with programming, publishing or graphics experience enough to know how this works, or to be able to hazard an educated guess?
