DVIWindo Windows 2000 Problem (fwd) [Andreas Antoniou]

[Christina Thiele]

Guys, I'm forwarding Andreas' queries here.

Blenda, I wonder if it would be at all possible to pass this one along
to Berthold. This guy has been sooooo massively patient out there on
the west coast. He's sent lots of messages trying to provide useful
info (not always offering it up right away but still ... a pretty
patient user). And I'm just not up to snuff on this stuff.

I of course have all the previous mail and would be more than happy to
ball it all up if Berthold wanted to see the past history -- and
mis-steps.

But I really think I need help. And because he really does want to
keep plugging away at Y&YTeX because he really likes and needs some of
its features ... can we try Berthold's patience one more time?

Ch.

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> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:00:12 -0800
> From: Andreas Antoniou <aantoniou at shaw.ca>
> Subject: DVIWindo Windows 2000 Problem
> X-Sender: aantoniou at shawmail.gv.shawcable.net
> To: Christina Thiele <cthiele at ccs.carleton.ca>
>
> Christina,
>
> Further to my previous email,  I have found out one more thing that could
> provide an answer to my curious problem.  Windows 2000 seems to be unable
> to handle fonts that are outside folder \WINNT\Fonts!  That is, any font
> files in file C:\psfonts do not seem to be interpreted as fonts.  Windows
> 98 handles these font files with the help of ATM.
>
> I have tried putting a pfb font file in \WINNT\Fonts but Windows 2000 will
> not accept such files.  It considers them as corrupt font files!
>
> Now here is the $60,000 question.  Your documentation seems to advise
> against installing ATM 4.0 on a Windows 2000 machine.   Would it cause a
> problem if I were to install ATM 4.0 anyway?  There is a chance that it
> could solve the problem.   As I said earlier in an email, I have not
> installed ATM on this machine.
>
> Can you address this question?  Or is there anybody else in  your company
> who is familiar with running your software on Windows 2000 machines?
>
> As I said, I could get by with MikTex but to numerous font facilities
> offered by your DVIwindo previewer are very useful in my book writing
> effort, even outside TeX/Latex.   I am using some unusual fonts with
> Illustrator 10 and CorelDraw 10 and I sometimes need to know the characters
> of a font and their decimal values.  The facility Show Font offered by
> DVIwindo is most valuable.
>
> I know you are quite busy with other matters but could you answer at least
> this question?
>
> Andreas
>
> ==================Previous Email==============================
> Christina:
>
> I  was comparing my laptop version of the Y&Y TeX System  to the Windows
> 2000 version and I discovered an important difference between the two that
> might help you help me get this program to run!
>
> I believe Windows 2000 CANNOT find the Type 1 fonts for some reason.  I am
> saying this because NONE of the Type 1 fonts is accessible through the command
>
>                    Fonts > Show font
>
> In other words the pop-up window titled Font does not show any of the  Type
> 1 fonts not even one.  Note that  I have entered the path C:\psfonts in
> DVIWindo.ini and furthermore folder C:\psfonts contains a copy of all the
> pfb files (copied form the CD ROM).
>
> On my laptop the Type 1 fonts in C:\psfonts are all accessible.
>
> Can you help?
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
>
> Andreas