Fw: Re: Ligatures dont print

[Blenda Horn]

Hello everybody,

It might be a matter of replying to late to this posting,  but I did send Erwin's email to Berthold Horn, the developer of Y&Y TeX Systems and he responded.  Here is his contribution:


As others already indicated, one needs to make sure that the Type 1 fonts are
not "shadowed" by TrueType fonts of the same name.  A useful diagnostic is
to determine whether the problem is specific to specific fonts or happens
with all fonts.

> 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.

The fact that everything looks fine on screen suggests that you have the Type 1
fonts installed and that they probably are not "shadowed" by TrueType fonts of
the same name. The problem appears to be specific to printing.

So, make sure that in the "Print" dialog box you have "Use DVIPSONE" checked.
Otherwise it will use the windows printer drivers, which cannot handle reencoding of fonts.
("Use DVIPSONE" is checked by default, but may have gotten reset in your installation).




----- Original Message ----- 
From: Christina Thiele<mailto:cthiele at CCS.CARLETON.CA> 
To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE<mailto:YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE> 
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:37 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<mailto:e.poenitz at ETELNET.AT>>
> Sent: Apr 14, 2005 12:05 PM
> To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE<mailto: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
>