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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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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=OCRA1000600... and http://store4.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFont&code=OCRA1100500... 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
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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
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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
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Our applications sends postscript file raw to printer, bypassing the driver.
How does one get the font into the postscript stream?
Alternative would be to load on printer?
Dale