My printer vs. Times New Roman
Hello again, Sorry for asking so many questions at a time, but i'm really intrigued. I have Samsung ML-1615 laser printer. When I print an MS Word document typesetted in Times New Roman, the printer uses internal (hardware) font resource, and hardcopy is very smooth and nice. When I print a pdf generated by ConTexT, the same font becomes rasterized and looks a bit ragged on a paper. Is there a way to instruct Acrobat and printer that I use authentic Time New Roman? (The typescript I currently use is: \starttypescript [serif] [timesnr] \definefontsynonym [TimesNRRegular][file:times][features=default] \definefontsynonym [TimesNRItalic][file:timesi][features=default] \definefontsynonym [TimesNRBold][file:timesbd][features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [timesnr] \definefontsynonym [Serif][TimesNRRegular][features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic][TimesNRItalic][features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold][TimesNRBold][features=default] %\definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic][][features=default] %\definefontsynonym [SansBoldSlanted][SansBoldItalic][features=default] %\definefontsynonym [SansCaps][Sans][features=smallcaps] \definefontsynonym [SerifSlanted][SerifItalic][features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [timesnr] \definetypeface[timesnr][rm][serif][timesnr][default] \stoptypescript ) Best regards, Vyatcheslav
Dear Vyatcheslav, On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
I have Samsung ML-1615 laser printer. When I print an MS Word document typesetted in Times New Roman, the printer uses internal (hardware) font resource, and hardcopy is very smooth and nice. When I print a pdf generated by ConTexT, the same font becomes rasterized and looks a bit ragged on a paper.
IMHO Samsung ML-1615 is a GDI printer, that relies on PC CPU to do most of the work. Thus the printer is unlikely to have any hardware fonts. There may be settings in your PDF viewer to enable/disable the use of local fonts and something like "print text as graphics" - you may play with them. But in general PDF document/PDF viewer/Windows GDI printer driver combo may or may not work depending on the astrological conditions. /* Offtopic Is "go and get a PostScript 3 printer or use GhostScript, both are dirt cheap" an answer backed by the collective wisdom of ConTeXt/LuaTeX/pdfTeX users? */ Sincerely, Michail
Am 2009-03-10 um 05:59 schrieb Michail Vidiassov:
/* Offtopic Is "go and get a PostScript 3 printer or use GhostScript, both are dirt cheap" an answer backed by the collective wisdom of ConTeXt/LuaTeX/pdfTeX users? */
In my experience "no" regarding PS3 printers being cheap. And there are sometimes printing problems with Adobe Acrobat/Reader as well as with GhostScript and GS-based applications, regardless of the source of the PDF, on some printers - even those that claim to contain genuine PostScript interpreters. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
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