> 6. I work for a small family-owned retail business, and the primary
> applications I'm interested in at the moment are the following:
>
> * Making signs, either one to a page, or four to a page, on
> commercially available perforated card stock, with borders.
> This would require the ability to print in some relatively
> large fonts, possibly 72 points or so, and most of them
> would require landscape mode. We also need to print peel
> and stick labels for labeling jars and bottles. It would
> be nice to be able to also use some of the fonts available
> to some of the graphical spreadsheets and word processors,
> including those that come with MS Windows for Excel, etc.,
> as we are now using Excel for some of this, and I'm trying
> to eliminate Windows completely to avoid having to reboot
> for these jobs. Can this be done?
Basically yes. Get pfaedit and convert the TrueType fonts to Type 1
fonts. The only problem is that most TTFs have more than 256 glyphs
in it, making it non-trivial to find a proper mapping. On the other
hand, big-sized fonts will be printed in the same quality as if the
TTFs were used.