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Subject: Win9x: AdobePS 4.4 printer driver - problems related to text
From: Shlomo Perets <shlomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 11:18:38 +0100
Sender: owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx
[ I am not usually posting to the two Framers lists, assuming most subscribers are on both lists. This is an exception, because of the potential implications to FM/Win95-98 users producing PDFs ] Adobe's web site has a new universal Windows printer driver installer, which installs a new AdobePS 4.4 driver on Windows 9x; Adobe PS 5.1.2 on Windows NT (and a different driver for Windows 2000). I recommend not to use the new AdobePS 4.4 printer driver (Win95/Win98) for PDF production. Keep using AdobePS 4.3.1, included in the Acrobat 4.05 CD (AdobePS 4.3.1 was removed from Adobe's web site). FrameMaker 5.5.x (and possibly other releases): Several common Adobe Type 1 fonts -- including Helvetica, Times, Avantgarde and Bookman - end up as MSTT31xxx fonts in the PDF. Text copied & pasted results in boxes; with other fonts you might have missing letters (mostly vowels, in some or all paragraphs). The Find function in the resulting PDFs will therefore become useless or unreliable. Excel97: Text using the "problem" fonts is transformed to a bitmap in the PDF, and the text is not even selectable (and not reported in Acrobat's Font Info dialog box). Word97: I did not notice a similar problem when using Word97 in conjunction with the new driver. If you install this driver, or if it will be installed automatically when installing an Adobe application, carefully inspect a few typical PDFs before adopting the driver for regular work. Shlomo Perets MicroType * http://www.microtype.com FrameMaker-to-Acrobat: TimeSavers / Advanced Techniques Course / Solutions ** To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@omsys.com ** ** with "unsubscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body. **