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From: leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds)
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Subject: Re: Why won't Windows print?
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Date: 30 Apr 91 03:49:52 GMT
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In article <1991Apr28.203109.9185@midway.uchicago.edu> lair@ellis.uchicago.edu (Scott A. Laird) writes:
>I'm having a problem printing with Windows.  I installed most (all?) of the 
>ATM fonts from cica, and added the .pfb's to the softfont entries in win.ini,
>but the postscript driver refuses to print when the number of softfonts being
>used is greater then about 156.  If I erase #140, for instance, I can raise
>the softfonts= line one higher than before, and it will still work, but if
>I go one higher than that it will fail.

I too ran into this problem, but did not narrow it down to 156 available 
softfonts.  In my case I had installed 186 cica fonts.

>The symptoms are easiest to observe in WfW, where setting the softfonts line
>too high causes it to grey the Print... option and refuse to show _any_ fonts
>in the font selector in the ribbon.  Pagemaker and Excel will let me select 

Exactly the same symptom for me.  I ended up using ATM to remove all the 
fonts it knew about, & then manually edited the win.ini to remove ALL 
references to softfonts ... still no change

>I'm using windows 3.0 (not 3.0a) with ATM 1.1, WfW 1.1, version 3.4a of the 
>postscript driver from cica, and a total of about 240 ATM fonts.

Win 3.0a, ATM 1.1, W4W 1.1a PSDRV 3.4 from uSoft supplemental drivers disk.

>Since I haven't seen anyone else with this problem, and I'm sure that _someone_
>else has tried installing all of the fonts and printing to a Postscript
>printer, it seems that the problem should be something other than a bad driver.
>I tried it with the old (3.3) driver and it was the same.  If anyone can help,
>please either send me email or post, I'll see it.  Thanks!

I finally gave up & called uSoft W4W support ... the person did not know, 
but basically re-installing the printer driver, & then again ATM (with the 
107 original softfonts) puts me back where I started from in the first place.  

uSoft should probably be told about this magical limit of 156 softfonts for 
a PS printer, but seeing as though they did not write the driver ... it will 
probably never get passed on to adobe for correction.

One thing that had struck me as a possible problem is that some of the fonts 
have duplicate names ... was this enough to confuse someone (ATM/w4w/PSDRV)?

I was hoping that someone had sorted through the fonts by now, but seeing 
as nobody has, I might try & do that myself.  Is there anybody out there 
that understands PFB files well enough to instruct me on how to rename 
fonts so that ATM will not see duplicates? ... besides the name, do I 
have to change the UniqueFontID?

Thanks


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