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rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols) writes:

:In article <1ce6da9b@p7.f7521.n241.z2.fidonet.org> in comp.os.ms-windows.setup
:   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!

:The other fonts that gave me trouble were:

:	EileenCaps		Elzevier-Caps
:	EileenCaps-Black	Uechi

:If anyone can point me toward a working version (PostScript or TrueType)
:of any of the above fonts, I'd appreciate it.

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

There was a point in time when the faces mentioned above
were not available as TTF's (well, at least "CarrickCaps"
and "KonanurKaps").  I was forced to convert them from Type
1 using AllType. The conversion did not go well, and I
ended up with the same results as was described in the
first post. I suspect that the TTF versions of these faces
that are now floating around are simply AllType conversions
of the original Type 1 versions and have suffered through
the same sort of conversion error.

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