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Re: tlug: Broken postscript in Windows, fixable?




Sometimes you can tell the program to download the fonts, sometimes
it's possible. I'm not sure in your case though, since I'm not too
familiar with MS Word...

On 23 Apr, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> My wife wanted me to print out her resume for her.  She made it in
> microsoft word for Win95 (I don't have enough space on my linux partition
> for applix-beta..) .. ok, so, we have no printer at home.  So I said,
> okay, i'll print it at work.  I don't have MS Word at work.  So, I set up
> a 'postscript printer on FILE:' in '95 at home, and printed to that,
> ftp'ed the .ps file to work.  prints out, but looks awful - fonts are so
> low-res that they're barely readable... is there any way to fix the fonts
> in a postscript file?  Looking at the output from some .ps files generated
> by Linux netscape and emacs, I see embedded fonts in there, but not in the
> one generated by Windows... what can I do besides have her retype it on
> Applix here at work?
> 
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