Display Problems - ITC Zapf Dingbats & Windows 2000 - & a Workaround!

["Dov Isaacs" <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

There appears to be a problem under Windows 2000 in which characters chosen from
the ITC Zapf Dingbats font, one of the "base 35" PostScript Type 1 fonts, display
in the TrueType WingDings font on the screen, but print OK to PostScript printers
and generate correct PDF files. This affects most, but not all, applications.

These applications in which the problem occurs appears to include all the 
applications which use Windows 2000's font rendering services as opposed to 
applications which internally control their own fonts. The applications affected 
include Microsoft Office, WordPerfect Office, Lotus Smartsuite, and FrameMaker, 
amongst others.

If you have ITC Zapf Dingbats installed under Windows 2000 and correct characters
both display and print from any of the above applications (including WordPad) for
all characters formatted in ITC Zapf Dingbats, ignore the rest of this email. You
have a version of ITC Zapf Dingbats installed that has a "correct" .PFM (PostScript
Font Metrics) file.

Applications NOT affected include Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe
Acrobat, and Adobe InDesign.

Adobe is investigating the problem and a possible solution. In the interim, I
recommend the following workaround that so far appears to work without any problems.
Acrobat 4.0x and Acrobat Reader 4.0x include their own copy of the ITC Zapf
Dingbat font. The .PFM file in Acrobat for ITC Zapf Dingbats seems to "fix" the
problem for the system. Use the following procedure to use that PFM file instead
of that currently used by the system:

(0) Logon with a userid with Administrator rights.

(1) Save (to a safe location) and then delete the ZD______.PFM file in PSFONTS\PFM 
(if you have ATM) or in the WINNT\FONTS directory, otherwise.

(2) Copy the ZD______.PFM file from the Resource\Font\PFM subdirectory of
Acrobat 4.0x or Acrobat Reader 4.0x to the directory from which you just
deleted the .PFM file.

(3) Reboot.

I would be interested in any feedback in terms of users who either:

(a) Have NOT experienced the problem, but do have ITC Zapf Dingbats installed ...
please let me know where and when you obtained the fonts and the file
modification dates.

(b) Are experiencing the problem and the fix works completely.

(c) Are experiencing the problem and the fix either doesn't work or has
side effects.

Please respond to me directly, not to these lists. Thank you.

	- Dov

PS: FrameMaker users -- the PFM file we are recommending for the workaround
is NOT the infamous Windows NT Dingbats Fix font from 1997. That fixes the
display problem, but does NOT print all characters correctly!!!


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