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As promised, here is a short summary towards the TTF-bug which I depicted here 
lately:

  Most  of you meant, that the problem is caused by the font(s) itself,
  not meeting some TTF-specifications.
  However,  it  was in fact a memory problem caused by Windows' default
  settings! One of you (TNX Kevin!) had the answer:

>  In response to inquiry about having problems printing (and displaying)
>TrueType fonts (especially complex characters), the solution may be to
>change the OutlineThreshold= setting in Win.INI under Truetype settings
>.  All of this is explained better in the Windows Resource Kit manual,
>but the default for this is 256, which means when a font passes 256
>pels(pixels)-per-em, the font will no longer be a bitmap but an outline
>font.  Generally if you are low on memory, or if the font is
>particularly complex, you lower the value.  Note bitmap fonts are
>faster, but take more memory. Tweaking with this value, may produce
>better results both on the printer and on the screen.  You might want
>to try a value real low (say 50), see if it works, and move up from
>there if it does.

  I  haven't  found  the  optimal  value (yet), but 50 does work (in my
  case).  However,  this  solution  is  no panacea: the machine becomes
  incredibly  sloooow  and the chars printed out are more "jagged" then
  before  (especially  visible  with  script like fonts in medium point
  sizes (~18pt)).

  Oh  yes,  a  last  note  applies: The problem seems to be well known,
  quite a lot of people wrote me having the same problem. Nevertheless,
  Microsoft  obviously  didn't  thought that it's necessary to document
  such  things:  neither in about 200K README-files nor ~1000 pages doc
  accompanying my Win 3.1, the above switch is documented!

Shame on you, MicroSoft!

TNX to everybody,
 Kai

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