Ted,
Thanks a lot, I'm going to experiment a bit now and see if the Adobe
names are mapped as you suggest. I have looked around on the Brother
support site, but without finding the details on BR Script or the job
language so that's a handy tip.
Impressed by the off-the-cuff postscript BTW - who needs a WP?!
cheers
alex
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Harding [mailto:Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk]
Sent: 23 July 2001 23:01
To: Alex Thomas
Cc: SuSE (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [SLE] Using Brother printer's built-in PS fonts
...
My Brother HL1070 does somneting very similar. I haven't fully sussed
it out, but it's pretty clear that it uses fonts such as those listed
above with a built-in alias for the standard Adobe font family names.
So you shouldn't need to use any embedded fonts provided you invoke
the standard Adobe font names. You certainly don't need to make your
own aliases.
You can get a "Test sanmple page" printed out by holding down buttons
while you switch on (see your printer manual), and this will show you
what many of these fonts looks like, by printing their namea.
I've done a visual comparison, and (on my HL1070) it seems that the
correspondence is as follows:
Adobe Brother
================== =====================
AvantGarde Atlanta
Bookman Brussels
Courier Brougham
Helvetica Helsinki
Helvetica-Narrow Helsinki-Narrow
NewCenturySchoolbook Copenhagen [? not too sure of this one]
Palatino Portugal
Symbol BR Symbol
Times Tennessee
ZapfChanceryMedItalic CalgaryMediumItalic
ZapfDingbats BR Dingbats
The result of this is that if you have any PostScript file which uses
only the names of fonts from the left-hand column, you can send it to
the Brother printer and it will print it using the corrsponding fonts
from the right-hand column.
You can of course use its other built-in fonts as well, but as you
say you're a touch stuck since you don't know what their AFMs are.
However, if you want to see them all (the "test sample page" only
prints a selection) you can try injecting a raw PS file straight
into the printer (NO filtering), on the lines of
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
/Times-Roman findfont 12 scalefont setfont
72 600 moveto
(the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog) show
72 580 moveto
(THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG) show
/Tennessee-Roman findfont 12 scalefont setfont
72 560 moveto
(the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog) show
72 540 moveto
(THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG) show
/Alaska findfont 12 scalefont setfont
72 520 moveto
(the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog) show
72 500 moveto
(THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG) show
showpage
and so on (as many fonts as you like). Notice how Times-Roman
and Tennessee-Roman come out the same ... (but not quite
identical to true Adobe Times-Roman).
Also, if you poke around on the Brother Web site (under support
and the like) you'll come across a lot of interesting stuff,
including PDF documents about the Printer Job Language and the like.
Also try to find a very interesting file called "brhl1070.ppd"
(or its equivalent for your model), which gives you a lot of
low-down on the internals of BrotherScript. also other files ...
Good hunting!
Ted.
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