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From: kurt@hpsdde.hp.com (Kurt Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Problem with HP LJIII & Type1 Fonts
Keywords: LaserJet,Type1,Font
Message-ID: <1991May08.151125.29301@sdd.hp.com>
Date: 8 May 91 15:11:25 GMT
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I recently purchased (at my personal expense) a new Hewlett-Packard
LaserJet III with the appropriate hardware/firmware to be used with
my Mac (SE/30).  I have found that it will not print Type1 fonts
created with Fontographer 3.1.  Instead, it fails with an "illegal
font" error (as detected with Adobe's error-handler code).

  Has anyone else seen this? Is there any solution? If this will not
work, I will probably send the printer back as it is advertised as  
being equivalent to the Apple LaserWriter IINT (these fonts work fine
with a IINT(X)).

  Other, possibly relevant info: System 6.0.5, HP LaserJet III driver
(based upon LW 6.0), failure mode persists with LW 6.0 and 5.2 drivers.
Type3 versions of the same fonts work OK.

  Since I am an HP employee, my support questions get put on the bottom
of the stack, but I was encouraged to take this problem to the net.

  Thanks for any help in advance,
     Kurt Andersen

kurt@hpsdid.sdd.hp.com