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QMS PS 810--Some Extended Characters Not Prin |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: The printer will not print characters 4,17 (1/2) and 4,18 (1/4). The customer has board 47.2 revision 5 ROM. These characters are listed in the WP Postscript character set. The customer would like to use the Postscript Additional driver. Character set 4 characters 69-74 print boxes instead of characters. Fractions are unreadable if graphics and text are set to draft mode. Character set 3 character 3-7 are not solid. WP 5.0 printed characters 1-3 properly. Character set 7 characters 154-159 and 180-183 print oblong, not round. Solutions: It seems as though the printer does not have internal 1/2 and 1/4 symbols because the QMS driver will print out the 1/2 symbol on the HP Postscript, Brother PS, Nec LC-890, and Apple LaserWriter printers. The tester thought that maybe since the symbols were encoded by WP to be decimal values 9 and 10 that the printer may have been interpreting them as control characters, but after re-encoding them to be decimal values 253 and 254 and still having them not print leads him to believe that the postscript commands "onehalf' and "onequarter" do not exist in character form. There is a fix given in STR # 5095 but it may not be complete. The values for 1/2 and 1/4 at 4,17 and 4,18, for both the PostScript 1 and PostScript Fixed character maps, need to be deleted. If they are PS fonts they must also take out the proportional spacing widths for each font. The graphic printing of these characters print out fine on the QMS Printer. If his other graphic characters do not print out correctly then it could be the WP.DRS file he is using. Check the date to make sure he is using the current release, because the tester had no problem with 4,69-74 and 3,3-7. Characters 7,154-159 and 180-183 did print out as an ellipse, but only if he used a Courier font, Helvetica and Times Roman printed them out as a circle. The customer can use these fonts for now if he uses those characters. |
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