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- From: hameluck@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Jeff Hameluck)
- Subject: Trouble with True Type / Pagemaker 4.2 / LaserWriter IIg
- Sender: news@sue.cc.uregina.ca
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.011506.1338143@sue.cc.uregina.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:15:06 GMT
- Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada
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- We have a bunch of networked Macintoshes and two people have been having
- trouble printing TrueType fonts from PageMaker 4.2. They each have their
- own LaserWriter IIg (which you may or may not know, the IIg does NOT have
- Zapf Dingbats in its ROM) Anyway, both people have trouble when they
- print Zapf Dingbats. (We installed the TrueType version from Apple
- since their printers no longer had a Postscript version) and they can
- print it once but then the printer will not print again. It has to be
- reset. Also one of them said the Old English TrueType font which comes
- in the Apple Font Pack (we got this when we bought some Personal LaserWriter
- NTRs) caused a Postscript error when she tried to print it from Pagemaker.
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- Anyone else have problems with TrueType fonts not printing, Pagemaker and
- TrueType fonts or the LaserWriter IIg and TrueType fonts? These fonts
- print just fine from other apps on my machine to the HP IIIsi that I use.
- Pagemaker does have it's own printer drivers.
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- Some people have version 7.1.1 of the LaserWriter driver, some people have
- version 7.1.2 Could this cause problems (I know there are problems when
- some people use a System 6 LaserWriter driver and others use System 7's..)
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- Is there a public domain Postscript equivalent of Zapf Dingbats? I've looked
- in the archive.umich.edu Type 1 fonts directory on wuarchive but couldn't
- find anything. I don't see why we should have to buy Zapf Dingbats, we've
- bought over 14 printers with it already... We also have Adobe's Type on Call
- CD-ROM and Image Club's but neither lists Zapf Dingbats as a font they sell
- anyway (why would they it's built into every Postscript printer, well expect
- the IIf and IIg)
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- Does it sound like a problem with the TrueType font, Pagemaker, the printer?
- Macintoshes in general :)
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- Jeff Hameluck
- Regina Public Library (also University of Regina)
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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