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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: TrueTypeFont-Bug!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.222426.28536@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1ce6da9b@p7.f7521.n241.z2.fidonet.org> <1993Jan8.002210.3991@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:24:26 GMT
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- In <1993Jan8.002210.3991@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols) writes:
-
- >In article <1ce6da9b@p7.f7521.n241.z2.fidonet.org>
- > 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!
-
- I encountered this problem, too. The only 'solution' I ever found was
- to set the printer up to do the fonts as 'bitmap' instead of as 'Type
- 1'. This makes printing horribly slow, but then TrueType seems to be
- pretty slow in the first place.
-
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