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In <1993Jan8.002210.3991@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols) writes:

>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 encountered this problem, too.  The only 'solution' I ever found was
to set the printer up to do the fonts as 'bitmap' instead of as 'Type
1'.  This makes printing horribly slow, but then TrueType seems to be
pretty slow in the first place.

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