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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 believe that this is related to the fact that TrueType fonts take a
lot more space to store than do type-1 PostScript fonts.  I suspect
that, at large font sizes, the rendering of these complex characters is
requiring too much memory.  The Windows drivers at least handle this
gracefully, and generate an empty box.  The Alltype converter just
blows up.

I called Atech's technical support and was told that they know of
certain problems with fonts created by Corel Draw.  I informed them
that, no, these fonts could be identified as generated by Altsys
Fontagrapher, which, as far as I know, generates PostScript format, and
that the fonts has undoubtedly been converted from that form to
TrueType.  The support droid simply repeated the line about Corel Draw,
at which point I said, "Well, I guess the program isn't going to be of
much use to me," and hung up (and gave up, too).

I think I'll post this in comp.fonts, and see if anyone there can come
up with a working version of these fonts, or of the others that gave me
trouble:

	EileenCaps		Elzevier-Caps
	EileenCaps-Black	Uechi

Bob Nichols
AT&T Bell Laboratories
rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com