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**********************************************************************
Hewlett-Packard Company's
PostScript Printing Software for MS Windows 3.1
For the HP LaserJet Printer
**********************************************************************
Copyright (C) 1993 Hewlett-Packard Company.
Reproduction, adaptation, or translation without prior written
permission is prohibited, except as allowed under the copyright laws.
PostScript (TM) is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may
be registered in certain jurisdictions. Microsoft (R) and Windows (R)
are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. TrueType (TM) is a
trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.
The information contained in this document is subject to change
without notice. All rights reserved.
**********************************************************************
Application Notes
* IMPORTANT: For users of previous releases of Adobe drivers
The file formats of your new driver (v 2.1.1) are incompatible with all
previous driver releases. If you are installing this driver over an existing
driver, delete the previous driver, using the instructions below, then install
the new printer driver. You also need to reinstall any previously installed
PostScript printers.
To delete the previous version of the driver:
1) Delete the following files (not all files may actually exist in your
configuration) from BOTH your WINDOWS and WINDOWS\SYSTEM directories:
*.EBF
*.PPB
*.PPD
*.PFM (delete these ONLY if you did not place them here using the
ATM Control Panel or a font installation program)
ADOBEPS?.*
RUN_ENUM.*
PSINSTDV.EXE
WINDOWN.EXE
PS_ENUM.*
DOWN.DLL
DWN.HLP
2) Delete the following WIN.INI entries:
[PostScript Device,<port> <<<Delete this line
PrinterName=Printer Nickname <<<Delete this line
[devices]
PostScript Device=ADOBEPS,<port>,... <<<Delete this line
[PrinterPorts]
PostScript Device=ADOBEPS,<port>,15,45,...<<<Delete this line
If the device= line in the [windows] section of WIN.INI refers to
adobeps, delete that line.
3) Exit and restart Windows.
4) Install the new Adobe driver and any printers you may have
previously installed.
* Windows 3.0
This version of the AdobePS driver does not support Windows 3.0.
* Paper Source selection in Word for Windows version 2.0:
If your template specifies "Default Tray" as your paper source, Word
may automatically change that selection to "Manual Feed." Your
printer will then prompt you to feed paper through the Manual Feed
slot. You may or may not receive a "paper out" message on your
computer screen; however, the printer will prompt you to feed
paper through the slot. If this happens, go into the Page Setup
dialog box, in Word for Windows (choose Format from the menu bar,
Page Setup, Paper Source) and select "Paper Cassette" or
"Manual Feed" as your desired paper source. Choose the "OK" button
if you want this paper source to apply only to your current
document, or choose the "Use as Default" button if you want
this paper source to apply to all your Word for Windows documents.
* Printing complex documents - Optimize for Speed vs. Optimize for
Portability
In the PostScript Options dialog, there is a group box called
"PostScript Performance." If you select the "Optimize for Speed"
option, the PostScript output may no longer be portable and the
print job may lose its page independence. In addition, certain
jobs may cause the printer to run out of memory, thus terminating the
job with a VM error or rangecheck error. If you have problems, try
setting the PostScript Performance setting to "Optimize for Portability."
Printing lengthy documents that include several soft fonts with
insufficient printer memory may generate PostScript errors or cause other
printer problems such as:
- PostScript Error: limit check
- PostScript Error: VM error
- A page with the message that the printer has insufficient memory.
- Printer simply does not finish printing the job or resets.
Work-arounds: 1) Reduce the number of fonts in the document.
2) Add memory to your printer.
3) Try changing the PostScript Performance setting in the
PS Options dialog.
* Closing the Printers Control Panel after selecting your printer
Some selections made in the Printers Control Panel, such as "Set as Default
Printer" and "Connect," take effect only when you close the Printers Control
Panel.
* General Protection Fault error message
A General Protection Fault will occur if you do not close the Print Setup
dialog box in your application before opening the Connect dialog box in the
printer driver (choose Control Panel, select the Printers icon, then choose
Connect). This error will lock up your system and you will have to
reinstall your printer driver.
The error will occur in this type of scenerio:
You are in your application and select Print Setup to verify your printer
settings before printing your document. When you get to the dialog box
titled, "Setup:HP LaserJet 4Si/4SiMX PS 600 (or 300) on File (or LPT1,
COM2, etc.)," you discover that your selected connection is to File instead
of to a printer (i.e. LPT1, COM2). With the Setup dialog box still open,
you leave your application and enter the Connect dialog box, through your
Control Panel's Printer dialog box, to select a printer connection. After
selecting a printer connection, you choose OK, then go back to your
application, leaving the Control Panel still open. When you try to close
the Setup dialog box in your application, you receive a General Protection
Fault error. This error occured because the printer driver cannot function
correctly with the dialog box in the application and the dialog box in the
printer driver (Control Panel) open at the same time. You must close all
dialog boxes in your application before opening the dialog boxes in the
printer driver.
To correct the error, exit Windows, then restart Windows. If necessary,
remove the printer driver, if it is still listed as an installed printer,
in the Printers dialog box in the printer driver (it may be corrupt).
Reinstall your printer driver.
* Document Structuring Conventions
The Adobe driver does not emit the DSC comments "%%BeginData ... %%EndData."
Without these comments, some network spoolers may fail to process jobs
correctly.
* Adobe Illustrator
If you install Adobe Illustrator AFTER the Adobe PostScript driver, you will
see the following message:
"The file c:WINDOWS\SYSTEM\PS_ENUM.DLL already exists and has a different date
than the file Illustrator is about to install. Do you wish to overwrite the
current file on the system?"
Select "No," - DO NOT overwrite the file.
The same dialog will also appear for RUN_ENUM.EXE. asking if that file too should
be overwritten. Select "No."
If Illustrator is ALREADY installed on your machine and you install the
driver, you must clean out all previous driver files, then reinstall the driver.
Follow these steps:
1) Delete the currently installed driver as described at the beginning of this
ReadMe file.
2) Reinstall the driver using the instructions for Windows 3.1 provided in your
printer's Getting Started Guide.
* Full-color bitmap printing performance
When the PostScript Option "Send Full Color Data" is selected in documents which
include full 24-bit color images, AdobePS sends the full image data to the
printer. This allows the printer's halftoning capabilities to be used to their
greatest extent to print the best possible image. However, the resulting
intermediate files can be larger than when printed with PSCRIPT and may take
longer to print.
Work-around: If improved halftoning is more important than accurate color
halftoning, turn off "Send Full Color Data."
* Some images print with limited color
Printing some images (those based on RLE-4 and RLE-8 compression) print with
limited halftoning effects. Typically, shades of gray or color will print as
either black or white.
* Installing Print Font Metrics
The list of characters available in a font has changed from Windows 3.0 to
Windows 3.1. AdobePS uses the information in Printer Font Metric (PFM) files to
help applications lay out text correctly and to instruct PostScript printers
how to print text correctly. However, because of the changes in character
availability, some older PFM's may incorrectly list character widths, causing
either errors in the text layout on the screen, in the printer, or both. AdobePS
includes the newest versions of font PFM's for all of the printers it installs.
If Adobe Type Manager (ATM) is installed and has included PFM's for fonts on your
printer, AdobePS assumes that those PFM's are more up to date than the PFM's
included during the driver's installation.
If you suspect that your ATM fonts may be incorrect, follow these instructions to
force AdobePS to use its own PFM's:
1) Use Notepad, edit the line in ATM.INI section [Setup] that reads:
"PFM_Dir=c:\psfonts\pfm" (or similar) to read:
";PFM_Dir=c:\psfonts\pfm"
2) Save the modified ATM.INI.
3) Proceed to install a new printer using Control Panel, Printers
4) Restore the line in ATM.INI to its previous value.
* Accidentally printing EPS files
If your printer driver is configured to print EPS output to a printer rather
than a file, you will: 1) receive a warning saying that EPS should not be
output to a port; or 2) your job will print correctly within the application,
but the printer stays in a waiting mode until either another job is sent or a
time-out error occurs.
Work-around: Make sure that EPS format is only output to "file" rather than
"printer," and make sure to set the PostScript output type back to "PostScript"
after you've finished creating an EPS file.
* Installing fonts
The presence of fonts installed by some font installers will not be recognized.
Work-around: To notify the driver of fonts installed by non-Adobe font installers,
manually update the ATM.INI file. See the Adobe ATM user manual for more
information.
* Installing this driver
When installing a printer or printer PPD, you must first exit any application
that is using this driver or the Printers Control Panel will not proceed with
installation.
* Downloading fonts using the HP LaserJet 4Si printer
If you are using a serial connection and have the printer control panel set to
PERSONALTY=AUTO, you will be unable to download fonts. Work-around: Set the
printer control panel to PERSONALTY=PS.
* Deleteing fonts using the Font Downloader
When you try to delete fonts using the List/Remove fonts selection in the
Font Downloader, the delete button is inoperable.
Work-around:
1. In the Setup dialog box, select Font Downloader.
2. Select Other.
4. Select the Reset printer radio button.
5. Click OK.
A dialog box will appear telling you that if you reset the printer, all
downloaded fonts will be erased. (Along with deleting fonts from the
printer's memory, resetting the printer will also remove temporary
macros, clear buffered data in the printer, and return most settings
to user-selected settings.)
6. Click Yes.
* Aldus Freehand
Some drawings created in Aldus Freehand may fail to print and you may receive
a "setscreen" error message. Drawings may print if simplified.
EPS files that are created by selecting "Output Format: Encapsulated Postscript"
from Freehand and then imported into another application, display as a full-size
page.
Colored fill patterns printed from Freehand print black. All other fill patterns
print correctly. No known work-around.
Adobe driver substitutes Courier for Arial in Freehand. This is a problem with the
way Aldus handles font substitution. When selecting alternative paper
orientations, use the Freehand dialog box, not the driver's.
* Aldus PageMaker
You cannot choose EconoMode or Resolution Enhancement (REt) with your printer
driver. These features will not be dimmed in your dialog box, but PageMaker will
not send these commands to your printer (the reason for this is that Pagemaker is
following an earlier PPD specification). These are the only two features that you
cannot choose with your printer driver. For more information about this, FAX
Aldus at (206) 628-5737 and request document number 315101. (This document will be
in English only.)
* Ami Pro 3.0
TIFF files that are compressed as CCITT print inversed.
* Arts & Letters
When you select Landscape orientation, your output is actually Rotated Landscape
orientation. If you want Landscape orientation, choose Rotated Landscape.
* CompuServe - printing mail
Make sure you have the latest version of CompuServe's Information Manager. If
not, when you print mail, your computer may hang.
* CorelDraw! 3.1
CorelDraw! 3.1 cannot place EPS files created by any printer driver.
Work-around: None.
CorelDraw! will recognize this driver only if you make the correct modification
to the CORELDRW.INI file (in the Corel directory). Corel checks the list of
driver names under [Coreldrivers] in CORELDRW.INI (in the Corel directory). Add
a line "ADOBEPS=1" to this section.
Earlier versions of CorelDraw! may generate PostScript errors while printing.
* FrameMaker 3.0
Canceling a print job may sometimes cause an alert indicating that a file
header.ps cannot be found. This alert can be ignored; there is no problem.
* MS CardFile
Setting the scaling value in the Setup dialog to anything but 100% prints as if
unscaled and is mis-positioned on the page. The same behavior is observed with
the standard Microsoft Windows PostScript driver. Work-around: Leave scaling
set to 100%. Additionally, changing the CardFile margin settings may correct
this problem.
CardFile may print off the page if the resolution of the selected printer is 600
dpi. This is a problem internal to CardFile. Install the HP LaserJet 4Si/4SiMX PS 300
dpi driver and select it when printing from CardFile.
With certain margin settings, CardFile may cause an Unexpected Application Error
when printing. This can occur with any driver. Usually this occurs when the
margins are set to non-default values and is correctable by changing the margin
values to default values.
* MS Excel
Printers with resolutions in excess of 300 dpi may exhibit uneven patterning in
graphics using color fill patterns.
* MS Notepad
Resolution of 600 dpi may cause Notepad to print with incorrect margins.
Sometimes this can be corrected by changing the requested margins from "0.75,"
the default, to another value; but this does not always fix the problem. Install
the HP LaserJet 4Si/4SiMX PS 300 dpi driver and select it when printing from Notepad.
* MS PowerPoint 3.0
When printing some colored text from PowerPoint 3.0; for example, sample
presentation PRSPP16.PPT, slide #3, the text is printed in black rather than the
correct color. Work-around: none.
* MS Word 2.0c
Some characters may be clipped on the right side of the page. This will happen
when the last character in a line comes right before a "Tab" and is italicized
in a font which doesn't support an italicized style. For example, typing a
"bullet" character in Symbol, italicizing the character, then following the
character by a "Tab" may clip the character. Work-around: Avoid italicizing
characters when the italicized style is not available in that font; or place a
space immediately after the italicized character, but before the "Tab."
* Publisher's Paintbrush
Using the Setup dialog within Publishers Paintbrush may cause the driver to
display a message that it cannot find that printer's settings. Work-around:
Use the driver's Printers Control Panel to change settings.
Twenty-four bit images printed from Publisher's Paintbrush may print as black
boxes. Other 24-bit images may print with distorted shades of color not related
to the original image. This occurs only when the selection "Use Publisher's
Halftones" in the Print dialog is used. Images with 16 or 256 colors print
correctly.
* Ventura Publisher
Versions earlier than 4.0 may not work with this driver.
Ventura Publisher v3.0 requires that the PostScript driver be named
"PSCRIPT.DRV." This has been fixed in v4.0.
* WordPerfect 5.1
Versions earlier than 5.1 may not work with this driver. You may see these
problems: Unreadable text in the WordPerfect Select Printer dialog, switching
between printers dims the Select control in the Select Printers dialog, and
mismatched settings between AdobePS and WordPerfect. Work-around: use at least
WordPerfect v5.1.
Caution
Some software applications change printer settings globally. This
means that the printer settings you select in one application may
become the printer settings for other applications as well.
Microsoft Word is one application that affects printer settings
for all applications.
Calling for Help
If you have questions about your printer or printer driver, call the
Hewlett-Packard Customer Support Center at:
(208) 323-2551
The Customer Support Center is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
from 7 AM to 6 PM (Mountain Standard Time) and 7 AM to 4 PM on Wednesday.