Microsoft KB Archive/21049

Adding Font Support to a PostScript Printer Driver

PSS ID Number: Q21049 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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A PostScript printer driver can be modified to support additional font sizes. This is made easier by using width-table scaling. Do the following to add additional sizes:


 * 1) Add a PSD for the desired size to the font description table.
 * 2) Point the WTPS of the added PSD to the appropriate width tables (already defined in the driver).
 * 3) Increase the cPSDs number by one for each size added to the desired font.

You must modify both the driver and the initialization (INI.) file to add different fonts. You need to know the PostScript language to modify the INI. file. Refer to the “PostScript Language Reference Manual” published by Addison-Wesley.

You may not want to add different fonts because Word supports all of the internal fonts on the Apple LaserWriter Plus.

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