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Q94152: HPPCL5E: Adobe Type Manager Fonts Print at Wrong Size

Article: Q94152
Product(s): Microsoft Windows Printing Issues
Version(s): 3.1,3.11
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): 
Last Modified: 19-DEC-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows versions 3.1, 3.11 
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SUMMARY
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When you use the printer driver for the Hewlett-Packard (HP) LaserJet 4/4M
(HPPCL5E.DRV) version 1.03 or 1.04 and Adobe Type Manager (ATM) version 2.5,
text formatted for Adobe Type Manager fonts may not print at the correct size if
the Adobe Type Manager check box option Resident Or Pre- Built Fonts is selected
and several mixed sizes of the same font are formatted on the same page.

This problem can be corrected by selecting the Print Fonts As Graphics check box
in Adobe Type Manager.

MORE INFORMATION
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Adobe Type Manager does not assign new font ID values based on point size as
well as font name. Thus, when the driver sends the characters needed to print
the output, only new characters are sent if the font name has changed for those
characters. Changing the point size does not trigger the driver to send Adobe
Type Manager characters for this new point size. When the printer places the
characters on the page, it chooses the characters based on the Font IDs. For
example, if character "A" is sent in Times Roman at 10 point and there is
another Times Roman character "A" at a different size, both will print at 10
point.

This information was provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP) and has not been confirmed
for Microsoft by Adobe. For more information on Adobe Type Manager 2.5, contact
Adobe Systems.

To obtain the phone numbers for Adobe, query on the following words in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  "Adobe" (without the quotation marks) and "phonebook" (without the quotation
  marks) and "pss" (without the quotation marks)

The ATM and HP products included here are manufactured by vendors independent of
Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products'
performance or reliability.


Additional query words: 3.10 3.11 win31 PostScript

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbWin3xSearch kbZNotKeyword3 kbWin310 kbWin311
Version           : :3.1,3.11

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