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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!
>  Sometimes,  it's  just  the other way round: the chars are "boxed" or
>  completely invisible at the screen, but print out alright!

>  [other symptom descriptions deleted]

Something to consider is whether the fonts themselves are properly built,
rather than assuming that the font engine in Windows is faulty.

Who built the fonts which are giving you problems?  Are they commercial
products constructed according to the official Apple specifications, or
are they el cheapo knockoffs done in someone's basement?  (And note that
there are numerous supposedly commercial fonts which do not meet the
standard specifications.)

Numerous TrueType fonts have become available since Windows 3.1 was
announced, but many of them -- especially those which have been 
translated from some other scalable format like PostScript through
a converter program -- can cause various flavors of grief because
of bad formatting.

TrueType fonts are actually executable computer programs, much more than
is the case with PostScript.  Especially if hinting is involved it is not
at all unlikely that the glyph-generating program for some of your
characters goes bonkers when a complex figure is scaled to certain sizes.

(Of course, it's also not impossible that the TrueType engine in the
printer driver is failing to properly emulate a TrueType processor.
Do you have the most recent versions of the printer drivers, including
UNIDRV?)

I have a feeling that I've seen this type of complaint posted some time
ago, but don't recall if there was any solution offered.  Does anyone
else recall the details?

Joe Morris / MITRE