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From: jfadams@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows not auto-downloading softfonts
Keywords: Deskjet, soft fonts
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.145330.21348@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 91 14:53:30 GMT
References: <1991Jun3.210027.118@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1341@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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In article <1341@dcl-vitus.comp.lancs.ac.uk> arb@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Andrew Brooks) writes:
>
>I'm afraid I can't add any insight, just another version of the problem:
>
>Using ATM, I can get beautiful fonts on-screen at any size, but I still
>haven't found out how to get the fonts downloaded to a Postscript laser
>printer.  Ideally, you want them downloaded for a particular job as
>required, then removed straight afterwards.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas how to solve David's and my problem?
>
>Andrew
>arb@comp.lancs.ac.uk

Ditto.  But I believe I found the cause of the problem, at least in my
case.  ATM will properly identify and add fonts to the ATM.INI file,
however, it only adds the screen font entry to the WIN.INI file.

        softfont4=c:\psfonts\myfont.pfm

This entry only points to the printer font metric file.  Upon
printing, only Courier is actually printed using the font metrics of
"myfont".  Revising the line to read

        softfont4=c:\psfonts\myfont.pfm,c:\psfonts\myfont.pfb

fixes the problem and the document printed matches the screen in
Windows.

Of course, this example pertains to ATM using a Postscript printer.  A
PCL printer more than likely uses a slightly different scheme.  Since
ATM generates PCL fonts "on the fly" from the Postscript data, there
may be some connection.
-- 
James F. Adams       John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.        Everett, Washington USA
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