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Anonymous
February 1, 2010
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OCR A font

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Is there a OCR A font for Postscript that can be loaded to postscript printer?

I have an application where I am applying a postscript file to a spool file, and some of the data in spool file I want to print in OCR A font.  What is easiest way to do this?

Dale

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Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
Legend
February 1, 2010

Adobe does indeed license an OCR A font. See http://store4.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFontPackage&code=1501 for the OpenType version or http://store4.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFont&code=OCRA10006000 and http://store4.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFont&code=OCRA11005000 for the more obsolete Type 1 versions of the font.

Typically, these days we don't "load a font to a PostScript printer" but rather, install the font on your host computer and let your application send the font within the PostScript generated by the system's PostScript driver.

     - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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Anonymous
February 5, 2010

Dov,

Thanks,

I bought the OCR A font from Adobe, and installed in on a computer here, my postscript file is still not finding font

/OCRAStd findfont 12 scalefont setfont } def

Is the command I am using in postscript file to set font.

I even load ATM 4.1 on machine.

Microsoft Word sees the font.

Am I missing something

Thanks,

Dale Wicks

Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
Legend
February 5, 2010

Is a driver producing the PostScript? If so, then it should be downloaded a part of the generated PostScript.

If you are hand-crafting such PostScript and getting it to the printer some other way, you will need to get the font into your PostScript stream.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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