Printers Not Supporting TrueType in Windows 3.1
ID: Q83118
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The information in this article applies to:
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Microsoft Windows versions 3.1, 3.11
SUMMARY
In Microsoft Windows version 3.1, all printer drivers support TrueType
fonts except for the Generic/Text Only printer driver (TTY.DRV) and the
plotter driver (HPPLOT.DRV).
MORE INFORMATION
Printer drivers support TrueType in one of two ways:
- All dot-matrix printer drivers, the Hewlett-Packard (HP) DeskJet
driver (HPDSKJET.DRV), the Canon LBP II and III drivers (LBP8II.DRV
and CANONIII.DRV), and the Olivetti DM109/309 driver (DM309.DRV)
support printing TrueType fonts as raster graphic data. The IBM 4019
driver (IBM4019.DRV, also known as the Lexmark 4019), the original HP
LaserJet, LaserJet Plus, and LaserJet 500+ also support TrueType fonts
in this way.
- Other printer drivers support TrueType by downloading TrueType font
information to the printer, the same way that other soft fonts are
downloaded, and then requesting the font the same way other device-
resident fonts are requested. This is the way that TrueType is
supported for the HP LaserJet Series II (and later HP LaserJet
models, including the HP LaserJet III family), and the PostScript
driver (PSCRIPT.DRV).
Printer drivers written for Windows 3.0 by original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs) automatically support TrueType fonts if they support printing bitmap
fonts (such as TmsRmn and Helv in Windows 3.0 and MS Serif and MS Sans
Serif in Windows 3.1). If they don't, these drivers must be modified to
support TrueType fonts.
Additional query words:
3.10 3.1 KBPrint 3.11
Keywords :
Version : WINDOWS:3.1,3.11
Platform : WINDOWS
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