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From: altman@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman)
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Subject: Re: Why won't Windows print?
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Date: 1 May 91 20:15:53 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.

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>
>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!

Actually, Scott, you are probably the only one who has tried to install 
all of the fonts and keep all of the fonts.  I have download many fonts.
Many are of poor quality, and others are broken.  So I installed them 
one at a time seeing if I liked it or not then deciding.  Of all the fonts
I currently have about 128.

The other reason for not keeping them all, is that who has the drive space
to waste on all these fonts.  You are probably keeping them on the network
so you have space to spare.  But really.

Anyway, to answer your question.  Yes, it is a limit of the Postscript 
driver.  It does seem like an arbitrary number.  But keep in mind the 
following.  When you print with ATM using Type 1 fonts to every other
type of printer other than a PS printer.  ATM is really printing a bitmap
image of the printed page and not fonts.  The driver doesn't know anything
about the fonts at all.  That is why you don't have a problem with non-Ps
drivers.  

Now, Microsoft did not write the PS driver nor do they support it.  They
distribute it free of charge with Windows.  But the driver belongs to and
was written by Aldus.  You might consider giving them a call and mention 
the limitation to them.

>
>-- 
>Scott A. Laird            |  Any semblance of the above to anything is purely
>lair@midway.uchicago.edu  |  coincidental, as it was the result of an infinite
>The University of Chicago |  number of monkeys sneaking in to use my computer 
>                          |  for the afternoon. 


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