Ligatures dont print

[Erwin Poenitz]

Many thanks for your advice.

The ligatures are printing now. I cannot explain why.

What I did: I uninstalled completely and reinstalled from the CD (2.2). After that I copied the complete directory from NT yandy over XP yandy (sounds cracy). After that everything just worked fine.

I was somewhat suspicious about the cause of the problem. The fonts installed and used were TYPE 1 fonts. When I created a PS File und converted it with Adobe to PDF, the ligatures were there and did print, using the same printer driver. So they were in the PS-file, I suppose. Whatever, the problem is gone using technique above ;).

I was a faithful customer of YANDY, it just failed when I was ordering an update.

That YANDY was not at least able or willing to get a final release 2.3 out with the help of the users and sell this version 'as it is' for a couple of years is beyond comprehension for me. Deserting the customers in such a way is only excusable by personal problems stopping just short of suicide, in my opinion.

Regards
Erwin Poenitz
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Christina Thiele 
  To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE 
  Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:37 PM
  Subject: Re: Ligatures dont print


  Mirko Janc writes:
  >
  > Your XP probably picked up the same font Lucida in TrueType format (preinstalled with the system) and in WinANSI encoding there are no "fl" and "fi" ligaturers.
  >
  > --Mirko Janc, Baltimore, MD, USA
  >

  Yes ... sounds familiar ... I had deleted actually a bunch of stuff
  from my first reply (about reading FAQ #13 in the Techn. Add.) and it
  was indeed about TT vs T1 ... but it happened so long ago (maybe 7
  years ago now?) ...

  I once went through what I now call The TrueType Wars ;-) during a
  Y&YTeX installation for a client -- there were .ttf files in the
  psfonts folder (I think it was -- psfonts for NT, and it's now
  ?winfonts for XP?) for all the fonts which needed to be T1s.

  This had resulted from a defective install done by an on-staff person
  who just did what all other software font additions require -- move
  the folder on-screen from one place to another. Not the Y&Y way ;-)

  As I was terribly afraid of screwing up the machine(s) for other
  software, I created a TTF-fonts subfolder under psfonts, moved all the
  ttf fonts into that, and then re-installed the Y&Y fonts off the CD,
  as per instructions. I believe that more or less solved the problem
  ..  perhaps with a reboot, to set things right.

  `In the old days', we had Adobe Type Manager (ATM) to sort things out,
  including font installation (right?) but it can't be used for that
  under XP. There's a whole bunch of mail about what ATM _can_ do under
  XP, if you're brave enough to wade through the yandytex archives ;-)

  The long and short of it is: your problem is not impossible to solve,
  so take heart!

  Ch.

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  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Erwin Poenitz <e.poenitz at ETELNET.AT>
  > Sent: Apr 14, 2005 12:05 PM
  > To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE
  > Subject: Ligatures dont print
  >
  > Hello to everybody,
  >
  > I am a longterm user of YANDY TeX and as everyone else very much disenchanted of how things have developed.
  >
  > I need some help.
  >
  > I have managed to install YANDY TeX 2.2.0 on XP after some attempts. Everything looks fine on the screen. In the printout all ligatures are missing and are replaced with a dot, however.
  >
  > I use LUCIDA Bright, print on a HP 4100 PS Printer, switching between 'download as softfont' and 'substitute with device font' in the printer setup does not have any influence on the output. Everything worked fine with NT 4.0.
  >
  > Some help with this matter would be very much appreciated. I could not find anything appropriate in the previous discussions.
  >
  > Kind regards and many thanks in advance
  >
  > Erwin Poenitz
  > Vienna, Austria
  >