[yandytex] Printing from DVIWindo

[Ganz, Frank, Springer US]

Dear Virgil,

Do you (1) print the DVI to the printer directly or (2) do you print to
PostScript file?

I have a hunch that case (1) is true. 

While I have no experience with this situation, since I never print to
the printer directly, this would sound the most reasonable scenario. I
could imagine that the software has a built-in protection against
printing when not all resources (i.e. fonts) are provided. 

What the message might refer to is the fact that some images, which I
imagine must be EPS, do not provide fonts. Note, that EPS files do not
share system resources. This is done on purpose, to protect against
overrides when graphics are placed on text pages, graphics and text
properties won't cancel each other out or cause unwanted changes. So,
even if the font that's used inside the EPS file is available on your
computer, it won't be used!

What would help this situation is to print to PS first. Then distill to
PDF, at which point the Distiller would call your system fonts if they
are missing in the EPS. If you print that PDF, you'll have no such
problem apart from the question that the author of the EPS graphics
might want a chance to redo his/her work, i.e. to provide his/her
version of the fonts.

If my assumptions are correct, it would explain why it works sometimes
and not other times. Some EPS files you get have fonts embedded in them,
others don't. When they are not embedded, even when available on your
computer, you can't print.

Hope this helps!
Frank

>-----Original Message-----
>From: yandytex-bounces at tug.org 
>[mailto:yandytex-bounces at tug.org] On Behalf Of Virgil Stokes
>Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 4:40 PM
>To: yandytex at tug.org
>Subject: [yandytex] Printing from DVIWindo
>
>I am using DVIWindo 2.2.3 on a Win2K platform and have had no 
>problems with printing for several years.
>Recently, when I try to print by DVI files from DVIWindo I 
>will get the following popup error message
>
>  WINFONT
>
>  The specified resource name cannot be found in the image file.
>
>And is is erratic; i.e., sometimes I get this message and 
>sometimes I do not. If I get this message, then of course the 
>printing is aborted.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Note, I have kept my Win2K up-to-date (build 2195, Service 
>pack 4) and I have made NO changes to preferences in DVIWindo.
>
>--V. Stokes
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