Question: Truetype fonts on Imagesetters

[geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA]

 Apologies in advance for cross-posting this, but I wanted
 to get feedback from both editors and writers with
 experience in publishing.

 Question: The conventional wisdom is that you shouldn't
 send TrueType fonts to a Postscript imagesetter (to output
 film), particularly if you do it via a Postscript printer
 file (*.prn). Has anyone actually tried this? Any war
 stories re. the results? Any advice and cautions?

 Context: We're working in AmiPro, a low-end word processor,
 and produce camera-ready copy for our printer. We're trying
 to streamline our publishing process and simultaneously
 resolve a few output problems with our graphics. Going to a
 full PostScript setup would help a lot, but that's simply
 not in the cards... office politics rears its ugly head. So
 as a compromise (or perhaps a first step towards a full
 Postscript solution), perhaps sticking with the TrueType
 fonts and using Postscript illustrations might work. Ah,
 but there are those rumors of problems...

 --Geoff Hart     @8^{)}     geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
 Disclaimer: Speaking for myself, not FERIC.

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