XP + PostScript + Symbol font = ???

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4 total messages Started by Betsy Kulamer Thu, 27 Jun 2002 20:45

#1281

Author: Betsy Kulamer
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 20:45

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I do technical typesetting on an XP platform, and I have a problem using PostScript (for PDFs or simply laser-printing) in conjunction with any PostScript font that uses the Symbol character set. 

When I try to print or PDF a file in Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker, either I get blanks where the Symbol characters should be or I get errors messages like this: 

ERROR: ulimitcheck 
OFFENDING COMMAND: xshow 

STACK: 

[61 57 53 62 0 ] 
(    ) 

When I send the same file to the laserprinter via PCL, it prints fine. When I use Quark or Illustrator, the same printer set up handles the Symbol characters beautifully in either PCL or PostScript. 

I'd rather use FrameMaker than Quark for most jobs, but until this clears up I can't. Anybody have any ideas?

Re: XP + PostScript + Symbol font = ???

#1282

Author: Aandi Inston
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:07

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What is the imagesettter (product and version, also age of last
update)?

Aandi Inston

Re: XP + PostScript + Symbol font = ???

#1283

Author: Dov Isaacs
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:41

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By chance, did you remove the TrueType "Symbol" font? That particular font is installed with the operating system and is part of the "secret sauce" of Windows. Delete it and you have problems. If you did delete it, restore it and your problems should "go away." 

- Dov

Re: XP + PostScript + Symbol font = ???

#1299

Author: Helge Blischke
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:59

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To make things worse, ANY Type1 font to be treated as a symbolic font (whose charset flag is set to 2 in the 
associated .pfm file) will not be printed correctly 
(with the exception of Symbol and ZapfDingats) - any character will be replaced by 149 (decimal), which is 
the bullet character in WinAnsi encoding. 

Everything works as expected on Win9x and Win NT 4.

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