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Pennant AFP Printer driver for Windows
Version 1.03
Copyright IBM 1984, 1994 -- All rights reserved
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The information in this readme file is a supplement to the online help
information in the Pennant AFP Printer Driver for Windows.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS README FILE:
o Differences from the IBM AFPDS Printer Driver for Windows
o Installing the Pennant AFP Printer Driver for Windows
o Using the Pennant AFP Printer Driver with an OS/2 Printer Driver
o Troubleshooting
o Pennant AFP Printer Driver for Windows limitations
o IBM Core Interchange Fonts and Adobe Type Manager (ATM)
o Uploading files created with this driver to a host system
o Printing with an inline form definition on VM or MVS
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DIFFERENCES FROM THE IBM AFPDS PRINTER DRIVER FOR WINDOWS
The Pennant AFP Printer Driver for Windows:
1. Places PTOCA (text) as well as IOCA (image) in its output.
2. Clips page segments and overlays to the offset and size (or
printable area) given on the Clip Limits dialog box.
3. Supports Windows 3.1 (Windows 3.0 is no longer supported).
4. Allows you to selectively install the type of printer (for
example, 3820) that the output AFP data stream is tailored to
use.
5. Supports the use of custom paper sizes.
6. Supports color text.
7. Preserves indexed data for applications (such as AFP Workbench
for Windows) to use.
8. Does not by default include an inline form definition.
9. Allows you to specify a medium overlay to be included on every
page of your document.
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INSTALLING THE PENNANT AFP PRINTER DRIVER FOR WINDOWS
To install the Pennant AFP Printer Driver for Windows:
1. Open the Windows Control Panel and select the Printers icon.
2. Select "Add>>" on the Printers dialog box. A list is displayed of
the printers you can install. (If there are no printer drivers
installed on your workstation, skip this step.)
3. Select "Install Unlisted or Updated Printer" in the List of
Printers list box and select "Install." The Install Driver dialog
box displays.
4. With the diskette containing the Pennant AFP Printer Driver in
your source drive (for example, a:\), select "OK" on the Install
Driver dialog box.
5. Select the printer you want to use from the "List of Printers"
list box in the Add Unlisted or Updated Printer dialog box.
Select "OK" to close the dialog box and install that driver. You
may be prompted for a Windows installation diskette.
Note: If your printer is not on this list, select "Pennant AFP 240"
if your printer's resolution is 240 DPI, or "Pennant AFP 300"
if it is 300 DPI. Then follow step 7 of this install
procedure to customize the settings to match your printer.
If you don't know what printer your files will be printed
on, select "Pennant AFP 240". In step 7 of this procedure
leave the printer specific settings (image compression and
clip limits) set to their default values. Files created
for this printer with the printer specific settings left
at their default values will print on any AFP printer, but
may be quite large, may print slower, and may have some
fidelity problems on a 300 DPI printer (such as the 4028).
6. Select "Connect..." on the Printers dialog box. Change the port
in the "Ports" list box from "LPT1:" to "FILE:" and then select
"OK."
7. Select "Setup..." on the Printers dialog box. Set paper size,
orientation, and so forth to the settings you want to use and then
select "OK."
8. Select "Close" to close the the Printers dialog box. The
Pennant AFP Printer Driver has been installed.
9. Upload the AFP Reblocking Program to your VM or MVS host system.
Instructions for uploading files are in the Pennant AFP Printer
Driver online help information.
NOTE: If you experience problems installing the printer driver from
your a: drive:
1. Create a temporary directory on your hard drive (for
example, c:\temp).
2. Copy all of the files from the printer driver diskette in
your a: drive to the temporary directory.
3. Install the printer driver from your temporary directory by
changing all of the a: prompts to the name of your
temporary directory.
4. After the printer driver has been successfully installed,
you can erase the temporary directory.
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USING THE PENNANT AFP PRINTER DRIVER WITH AN OS/2 PRINTER DRIVER
When you use the Pennant AFP Printer Driver to print to an OS/2
printer driver (for example, Print Services Facility/2 (PSF/2)),
Select LPT1.OS2 (rather than LPT1) as the printer port from the Ports
list box in the Connect dialog box of your Windows Control Panel.
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TROUBLESHOOTING:
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Symptom:
The fonts in your printed document do not match the fonts on the
screen when that document is displayed.
Things to check:
Make sure the "Print Text" selection in the printer driver's Options
dialog box is set to either "As Image" or "Using Core Fonts if
available, as image otherwise".
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Symptom:
Your text is printing as image, or the AFP document is larger than
you would expect and prints slower.
Things to check:
1. Make sure you are using IBM Core Interchange fonts in your
document. If not, and you want your text to print using IBM Core
Interchange fonts, switch the "Print Text" selection in the
printer driver's Options dialog box to "Using IBM Core fonts".
2. Make sure that the "Print ATM fonts as graphics" option on the
ATM Control Panel is not checked.
3. Check your WIN.INI file for a "[FontSubstitutes]" section. Remove
any font substitutions involving the IBM Core Interchange Fonts.
For example:
[FontSubstitutes]
...
Helvetica=Arial <== REMOVE THIS LINE
Courier=Courier New <== REMOVE THIS LINE
...
You must restart Windows for this change to take effect.
4. If it is colored text, and ATM is installed, add the following
section to your ATM.INI file in your WINDOWS directory:
[Colors]
PrintColorGraphics=Off
You must restart Windows for this change to take effect.
5. If you are running an old version of ATM, upgrade to ATM 2.5.
6. If you are running ATM 2.6 (shipped with Adobe Acrobat), add
the following entry to the [Settings] section of your ATM.INI
file in your WINDOWS directory:
[Settings]
...
DownloadAdjust=On <== ADD THIS LINE
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Symptom:
Your color text is printing as black.
Things to check:
1. Make sure you are using IBM Core Interchange fonts for the color
text.
2. If ATM is installed, add the following section to your ATM.INI file
in your WINDOWS directory:
[Colors]
PrintColorGraphics=Off
You must restart Windows for this change to take effect.
Note: Some applications, such as Microsoft Word for Windows, will
force color text to black if the printer driver they are
printing with only supports black and white images. Since the
Pennant AFP Printer Driver for Windows only supports black and
white images, all color text will be printed as black from
these applications.
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Symptom:
Errors occur when you print a file created with the driver on your
host system.
Things to check:
1. Make sure you followed all of the steps listed in "Uploading Files
Created with this Driver to a Host System".
2. Make sure that the IBM Core Interchange fonts are installed on your
host system. Your Print Services Facility (PSF) version must be
at version 2 or above.
3. Make sure that the "Create inline form definition" check box on the
printer driver's Form Definition dialog box is not checked. If it
is checked, make sure the form definition you are using is
"F1IBMAFP". See also "Printing with an Inline Form Definition on
VM or MVS".
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Symptom:
Some special characters in your printed document do not match the
special characters displayed on your screen (for example box
characters).
Things to check:
Make sure that the "Print Text" selection in the printer driver's
Options dialog box is set to either "As Image" or "Using Core Fonts if
available, as image otherwise".
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Symptom:
Some horizontal lines disappear on output from Microsoft Word for
Windows.
Things to try:
Upgrade your version of Microsoft Word for Windows to version 6.0.
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Symptom:
Graphics, images, or both disappear on output.
Things to check:
If you are using WordPerfect, change the unprintable area (using the
"Top", "Left", "Right" and "Bottom" entry fields on the printer driver's
Clip Limits dialog box) to .25 inches (6.35 millimeters).
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Symptom:
Freelance Graphics for Windows' "Speaker notes" do not wrap correctly
to the next line when the "Image Resolution" on the printer driver's
main dialog box is set to 240 pels.
Note: This problem has been reported to Freelance Graphics for Windows
Support. The problem has not been corrected as of version
2.01. The following suggestions are possible ways to work
around the problem until Freelance has an opportunity to
correct it.
Things to try:
1. If you have a 300 DPI printer, install the corresponding printer
driver (for example, Pennant AFP 4028) or Pennant AFP 300. The
Freelance Graphics for Windows' "Speaker notes" print correctly
when formatted for a 300 DPI printer when a 300 DPI printer driver
is installed.
2. Edit the "Speaker notes" in your Freelance Graphics presentation.
Press down and hold the "Ctrl" key, then press the "Enter" key
to force the lines to wrap correctly.
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LIMITATIONS OF THE DRIVER:
1. Clipping an area will always clip whole characters. If you need
to clip partial characters, you must print the text as image.
2. Text overlaid by a graphic will not be obscured by the graphic.
If you wish the graphic to obscure the underlying text, you must
print the text as an image.
3. Landscaped page segments created with the Pennant AFP printer
driver will not be processed correctly by the Document Composition
Facility (DCF) if they are included inline. To use these page
segments with DCF, they must be referenced externally.
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IBM CORE INTERCHANGE FONTS AND ADOBE TYPE MANAGER (ATM)
The IBM Core Interchange fonts are a group of fonts supplied with AFP
Workbench for Windows and the PSF product family, Version 2.0 and
above. These fonts allow documents to be interchanged between
different systems, applications, and enterprises. Documents created
with the IBM Core Interchange fonts can be viewed and printed with
fidelity at any location that has AFP Workbench, PSF/2, or PSF,
Version 2.0 or above.
Note: The IBM Core Interchange fonts supplied with host system
versions of PSF are raster image fonts, those supplied with
PSF/2, PSF/6000 and AFP Workbench for Windows are Type 1 outline
fonts. To use the IBM Core Interchange fonts with your other PC
applications, they must first be installed.
The IBM Core Interchange fonts used by the Pennant AFP printer driver
are:
_________________________________________________________________
│ FONT │ STYLES │ POINT SIZES │
│_____________________│_____________│_____________________________│
│Courier │ Normal │ 7, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 20 │
│ │ Bold │ │
│ │ Italic │ │
│ │ Bold Italic │ │
│_____________________│_____________│_____________________________│
│CourierSymbols │ Normal │ 7, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 20 │
│ │ Bold │ │
│_____________________│_____________│_____________________________│
│Helvetica │ Normal │ 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, │
│ │ Bold │ 16, 18, 20, 24, 30 and 36 │
│ │ Italic │ │
│ │ Bold Italic │ │
│_____________________│_____________│_____________________________│
│HelveticaSymbols │ Normal │ 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, │
│ │ Bold │ 16, 18, 20, 24, 30 and 36 │
│_____________________│_____________│_____________________________│
│TimesNewRoman │ Normal │ 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, │
│ │ Bold │ 16, 18, 20, 24, 30 and 36 │
│ │ Italic │ │
│ │ Bold Italic │ │
│_____________________│_____________│_____________________________│
│TimesNewRomanSymbols │ Normal │ 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, │
│ │ Bold │ 16, 18, 20, 24, 30 and 36 │
│_____________________│_____________│_____________________________│
There are Type 1 fonts that match the IBM Core Interchange fonts. If
you use these Type 1 fonts in your documents, the driver produces text
output with fidelity that matches the displayed image, reduces
document size, and reduces printing time.
Install the Type 1 fonts on your system using ATM. The Type 1 fonts
that match the IBM Core Interchange fonts are as follows:
Courier
Courier,BOLD
Courier,BOLDITALIC
Courier,ITALIC
CourierSymbols
CourierSymbols,BOLD
Helvetica
Helvetica,BOLD
Helvetica,BOLDITALIC
Helvetica,ITALIC
HelveticaSymbols
HelveticaSymbols,BOLD
TimesNewRoman
TimesNewRoman,BOLD
TimesNewRoman,BOLDITALIC
TimesNewRoman,ITALIC
TimesNewRomanSymbols
TimesNewRomanSymbols,BOLD
NOTE: The printer driver can produce an AFP data stream that specifies
the IBM Core Interchange fonts even if you don't have ATM or the
Type 1 fonts installed on your system. However, installing and
then selecting the Type 1 fonts in your documents will improve
the fidelity between what is seen on your display and what you
print.
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UPLOADING FILES CREATED WITH THIS DRIVER TO A HOST SYSTEM
See "Uploading AFP Files to a Host System" in the Pennant AFP printer
driver online help. To see the Pennant AFP printer driver online
help for uploading AFP files, follow these steps:
1. Open the Windows Control Panel and select the Printers icon.
2. Select a Pennant AFP printer driver from the "Installed Printers"
on the Printers dialog box.
3. Select "Setup...".
4. Select "Help".
5. Select "About the Pennant AFP Printer Driver".
6. Select "uploaded to a host system".
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PRINTING WITH AN INLINE FORM DEFINITION
Instructions for printing files on your host system that were created
with the Pennant AFP driver and that contain an inline form
definition are as follows:
If your host system is VM:
Use the following PSF command after tagging your device and
spooling your printer:
PSF fn ft fm (FORMDEF(F1IBMAFP FDEF38PP) cc notrc)
See also "PSF/VM Application Programming Guide," S544-3466.
If your host system is MVS:
You need to specify FORMDEF=IBMAFP in your print job submission
JCL.
See also "PSF/MVS Application Programming Guide," S544-3084.
If your host system is AS/400 or OS/2:
No special commands or options are required. Print the file the
same way you would any other AFP file.
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