Do we have the right driver? Anyone know a FontDownloader for PC?

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2 total messages Started by Kalonica McQuesten Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:53

#1277

Author: Kalonica McQuesten
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:53

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Hi, 

I've posted on the Type forum, but the problem may be driver related instead. 

In an office that has about 40 PC laptops running Windows 2000 (with some integration with Windows NT, I think) we have four printers, all of which are running the following postscript driver 

Driver name: PSCRIPT5.DLL 
Config file: PS5UI.DLL 
Driver version: 5.02 

along with the various ppds 

Printers include HP LaserJet 4100 PS, HP LaserJet 8150 PS, and Xerox Tektronix 860 DX. 

Any characters set in Type 1 PostScript font in an Office 2000 document, will not print. Just empty space. Same problem on all computers, all printers. 

Maybe we need to update our driver? 

As a workaround, I want to download our postscript font to the printers so Word can find it and use it. I can't find a utility to do this for PC... 

Any clues? 

Thanks, 
Kalonica

Re: Do we have the right driver? Anyone know a FontDownloader for PC?

#1285

Author: Tim Murray
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:49

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The latest version number (in the DLL's properties) is 5.1.2600.  When viewing the version from a printer's Advanced Properties dialog, the latest shows up as Version 5.2 (5.1.2600.0) 

There have been some fixes from Microsoft that address problems with mismatched components. For example, you could add a printer using AdobePS and the later using the Add Printer wizard, and the latter would overwrite a more recent component with an older one.  

What I would do is download the latest AdobePS and install something with it ... anything.  Then, obtain and install Microsoft Hotfix Q310897, called the "PostScript XP Rollup", which contains all of Microsoft's PostScript fixes. It's labled for XP but it's for Win2K too.

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