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- From: jwu@cs.ubc.ca (Joseph Wu)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Re: TrueTypeFont-Bug!
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 00:25:21 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols) writes:
-
- :In article <1ce6da9b@p7.f7521.n241.z2.fidonet.org> in comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- : Kai_Rohrbacher@p7.badendoor.fido.de (Kai Rohrbacher) writes:
- :>
- :> I discovered a very annoying bug with Windows' 3.1 TrueTypeFonts
- :> (TTF's) and I can't imagine being the first one:
- :> When using complex TTF's (especially the three ornamented fonts
- :> "CarrickCaps", "KonanurKaps" and "Starburst"; others too), the chars
- :> display well at the screen, but get printed out as empty, rectangular
- :> boxes!
- :...
- :> I suspect that by default, Windows doesn't set aside enough RAM for
- :> the font-handling; does anybody know how to fix that?
-
- :The problem doesn't seem to be just with Windows drivers. I ran into
- :this exact problem with some of the fonts you mentioned and various
- :others. I tried to use Atech's Alltype conversion utility to convert
- :the offending fonts to type-1 PostScript, but it died with a general
- :protection fault on every one!
-
- :The other fonts that gave me trouble were:
-
- : EileenCaps Elzevier-Caps
- : EileenCaps-Black Uechi
-
- :If anyone can point me toward a working version (PostScript or TrueType)
- :of any of the above fonts, I'd appreciate it.
-
- :Bob Nichols
- :AT&T Bell Laboratories
- :rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com
-
- There was a point in time when the faces mentioned above
- were not available as TTF's (well, at least "CarrickCaps"
- and "KonanurKaps"). I was forced to convert them from Type
- 1 using AllType. The conversion did not go well, and I
- ended up with the same results as was described in the
- first post. I suspect that the TTF versions of these faces
- that are now floating around are simply AllType conversions
- of the original Type 1 versions and have suffered through
- the same sort of conversion error.
-
- --
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- Joseph Wu <jwu@cs.ubc.ca> | Witty quote is now back to the
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