Adobe 6. Postscript v5.2
What the heck is the difference between Postscript driver v5.2 build 5.1.2600.0 and 6.0.6000.16386
I NEED to have the latter installed and can't find it or how to install it and Adobe Tech support is of NO help
Here is the issue at hand
We have about 8 systems here using Adobe 6.0 standard. 7 will correctly plot 24"x 36" pdf thru Autocad, the 8th will not print anything larger than 11x17 the 7 systems use Postscript Printer driver v5.2 build (6.0.6000.16386) and the 8th uses v 5.2 (5.1.2600.0) so I NEED to know what the differences are and HOW I can get the 6000 driver installed
Yes, in windows the contact sheet changed when it moved to Organizer. You can send feedback here:
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Using PM 6.5 under MS Vista I can´t create PDF-files by "export to Adobe PDF". Need help.
Ofrahim wrote:
Using PM 6.5 under MS Vista I can´t create PDF-files by "export to Adobe PDF". Need help.
Firstly, Adobe don't support PM6.5 on Vista, for this kind of reason. PM's "Export… AdobePDF…" was never the most robust of macros so I'm not surprised it goes belly up with Vista.
You could try this (copied from the now defunct PM FAQs), assuming you have a version of Distiller (4?) installed.
The two stage Print and Distill process
Stage1:
First, "print" a PostScript file by going to File>Print.
Select a PostScript printer & PPD from the output device (ie: Linotronic or Prinergy), or preferably the Acrobat 5 Distiller PPD.
If you use Acrobat 6, use Adobe's Generic Postscript Printer by installing Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer (winsteng.exe) from Illustrator's install disk or at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1500, choosing "Local Port" and "File."
It's also recommended for all computers in your department to use the same PPD that is used for writing postscript files as the "Compose to" printer to avoid recomposition.
In PageMaker’s Print dialogue, click on the "Options" button, and check "Write PostScript to File." Select the "Normal" radio button. Set both Type 1 and TrueType fonts to download. As always, set the Send TIF/Images option to "Normal" and NOT Optimized. Make other settings elsewhere in the print dialog as desired, such as "paper" size, crop marks, separations, etc. You’ll see the Print button has now become a Save button. Click Save.
Note: If your going to create a PDF, always use the Distiller PPD.
Stage 2:
Launch Acrobat Distiller.
Good practice in general is to check your Job Options prior to distilling, because you’ll need to change these depending on if your PDF is destined for high-end output or just web viewing - more on that in another post below - but pay special attention to the compression and downsampling options. These will have a very noticeable effect on image quality vs file size. Navigate to the PostScript file you created and open it. Alternately, you can "drop" the .ps file onto the Distiller window. Your PDF will be created, and, provided your PM document was clean to begin with (graphics Placed and not Pasted, EPS and TIF graphics only, properly managed fonts, etc) you should have a good PDF.
Best of luck.
Iechyd da! John
00:08 28/04/2009 -
Adobe only prints first page of multi-page PDF documents.
On a military network, ever since users have been upgraded to Adobe Pro 9, only the first page of their multi-page documents will print from a particular network printer.
The OS is Windows XP.
Adobe Pro version is 9.1.2
Network printer is a Xerox Phaser 3500PS.
Can print other non-PDF documents to the same printer with no problems.
Can print the same PDF documents to other printers in the area and all pages go through.
No error messages on printer and no error message prints out.
I have had the users change their Font and Resource Policy to "Send for each page"
I have reloaded the Xerox Phaser 3500PS drivers.
I have had the users remove and remap the network printer.
I have had them try to print just two pages
I am unable to implement Adobe's Postscript Printer Driver as this is a military network and I cannot install unapproved software on the network printer server.
Any constructive suggestions would be appreciated.Figured it out.
Adobe Acrobat/Reader is apparently very picky about printer drivers.
I had to have the users delete their mapped network printers from their Printers & Faxes window.
Then I opened the registry and went to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\Version-3
I deleted the drivers for the printer(s) the customer had mapped (e.g. Xerox 6360DN, .. etc.)
I rebooted the computer
I had the customer logon and remap their printer.
That resolved the issue. -
Metadata from InDesign to PDF via PostScript
Have been playing around with placing Metadata in a InDesign CS4 file and then outputting a PostScript file. Then Distill the PS file into a PDF. ( seems silly but it is a customer requirement )
When I check the PDF the metadata is gone. When I check the PostScript file I see the placeholders for metadata, just no metadata.
Any suggestions for how to prepare the PostScript file ?
ThanksSteve Werner wrote:
Metadata (along with color management profiles, tagging, and many other things) are lost when you make a PostScript file, then use Distiller. The PostScript format predates all of these things are was never prepared to preserve them. That's why creating PDF in a different way is essential.
That's not entirely fair. PostScript certainly predates the PDF metadata structuring, however when PDF was introduced, Adobe extended PostScript to define a way to include PDF data in PostScript files (pdfmark; though I want to say there's another way as well). There's no reason that InDesign's Postscript export couldn't or shouldn't support inclusion of simple metadata in PostScript output (XMP metadata, on the other hand, I don't know if there's a good way to include such that Distiller would pick it up).
Of course, it would be possible to extract the metadata from the InDesign file seperately and shove it into the extracted PostScript file prior to distilling, or shove it in to the produced PDF file after distilling. Just a simple matter of scripting.
Dov wrote:
Very irrational and truly unnecessary customer requirement!
Dov, I feel like you are being a little disingenuous here to make a political point. As many have observed, often distilling InDesign's postscript produces more compact PDF files than any reasonable direct PDF output setting from InDesign. That makes it legitimately attractive to some people who care a lot about minimizing file size while maximizing quality. It is diffficult to tell them they are wrong.
I guess I haven't looked closely at this question, but it seems like this disfavored workflow does have some clear advantages. (I don't use such a workflow, so, take that with some salt.) -
Adobe Creative Suite Development:windows vs mac
When Adobe develops Creative Suite applications do they develop for the Mac or Windows platform first?
The builds for both platforms are done in parallel for Windows and MacOS from common source files with underlying libraries serving to differentiate how the programs work on particular platforms. The functionality is effectively the same for both platforms except where the underlying OS may prohibit some type of functionality (such as the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance for MacOS was suddenly prohibited by Apple a few releases of MacOS ago).
- Dov -
Next week I am getting my G5 Dual Core. Currently I am working with my good old Beige G3, still with good old OS 9.2...
As a graphic designer, I am questioning Tiger's ability to print PostScript on my (good old) HP DeskJet 1220C. Up till now I've been using Adobe's PostScript interpreter, PressReady, which would launch automatcally whenever I sent a QuarkXpress document to my 1220.
But PressReady has not been upgraded for years, and is no longer supported by Adobe.
Yes, I know, there is a way to keep working with my 1220 by creating a PDF file of the Quark file, and send it to the printer... WELL, THAT'S NOT AN EFFICIENT, ELEGANT WAY TO WORK, IN M HUMBLE OPINION... There MUST be a more direct way to solve this.
I am a bit confused and overwhelmed, reading all kinds of names like CUPS, GhostScript, and GIMP... Are those Print drivers that I would be able to use instead of my (good old) PressReady?? And if yes, where do I get one?Thanks, Greg....
When checking my printer, DeskJet 1220C on the list of Tiger's included print drivers and PostScript PPD files --- it lists the driver as Gimp-Print , version 5.0.0-beta2 and "Modern Driver" is checked...
Is that what you refer to when you mentioned GhostScript?
Also, have you had experience with (or knowledge about) specifically printing a QuarkXpress file to a non-PostScript printer?
I am checking, 'cause the response I got from Quark, when investigating printing a Quark file to my 1220 under Tiger, was "create a PDF first and then send it to print"... Which to me sounds inefficient and cumbersome, not acceptable really... -
Adobe PDF installed and set as default printer causes incorrect pagination in Excel
I have come across an interesting bug. When Adobe PDF is installed and set as the default printer, Excel produces incorrect and inconsistent pagination--in my case one of the sheets is printed to two pages wide rather than three it should be (when Adobe PDF is not installed), resulting in 9 printed pages instead of 11. I have created a test case to reproduce it.
The sample file is located here: goo.gl/ZBiWj
The test case is here: goo.gl/6KbrO
Instructions are given on how to reproduce the error. The same error occurs when printing the sample file to Adobe PDF as a printer. Any ideas on how to resolve this?Actually, the problem isn't really Acrobat or the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance at all. The problem is that Microsoft Excel as well as other Microsoft Office applications adjust their printed output based on the characteristics of whatever is chosen as the current printer. This has been an issue since the earliest days of Windows.
Each printer driver instance contains information about the specific printer including but not limited to page size, duplex capability, paper types, page orientation, output trays, imageable area (i.e., page size less unprintable margin areas), and device resolution. Based upon what Excel finds as values for a number of these characteristics, Excel will format the page differently. Excel is particularly sensitive to not only page size, but also imageable area and device resolution. Imageable area is important because Excel is attempting to avoid printing at all on parts of the page that your printer cannot possibly image; this is typically about one quarter inch around for most laser printers, a bit less for inkjet printers unless you have a printer that claims edge-to-edge print capability.
The Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance has imageable areas that exactly match page size for all available page sizes. Thus, Excel formats on the basis that it can print all the way to edge of the page unless you set margins otherwise. It also defaults to 1200dpi. Change the device resolution to another setting via printer properties and you will likely see relayout. These same issues occur with Word and to some degree with PowerPoint.
There is absolutely nothing that Adobe can do about this. The same problem is exhibited if you have access to multiple different printer models with different characteristics on your computer and you change from one to another, even if you don't have any Adobe software loaded on your system. Users have complained to Microsoft for years about this issue, but they typically have not considered this an important issue to tackle (ribbon user interfaces are obviously much more important).
Sorry, but not anything we can really do to help you here other than to advise you to always compose your Microsoft documents with the current printer being the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance, create a PDF file, and then print that from Reader/Acrobat to your real target printer. Alternatively, if you are very careful to setup the print characteristics of a spreadsheet to have large enough margins and headers/footers outside what would be the target devices non-printing area, you might get a bit better device independence - but don't count on it.
- Dov -
whenever I try to convert to PDF from from office 2000 or Notepad,I am getting an error
There was an error found when printing the document "Test Page" to My Documents/*.pdf. Do you want to retry or cancel the job?
[Retry] [Cancel]
I try the retry button and it still fails.
There are two Adobe PDF ports when I go into the Adobe PDF Printer settings:
Desktop\*.pdf & My Documents\.pdf
I am running windows 2000 ( NOT Terminal Server) and Adobe Professional 7
I have Acrotray running in background.
Please let me know if anyone has solution to this problem.
ThanksFound the problem.
Install the Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer 1.0.6
Works just fine. -
Adobe TrueType fonts missing from created PDF
When I create a PDF file everything comes through perfectly except the Adobe TrueType font text is missing (Adobe Garamond Pro). This used to work. File looks good on screen and prints fine.
If I switch to Garamond the PDF is created perfectly, now including all missing text.Note that Adobe's Garamond Pro fonts are not TrueType fonts. They are OpenType CFF fonts.
In fact, that may be the key to why they are not embedded in your PDF files.
First, contrary to the response of Bill@VT, although the Standard joboptions for Adobe's PDF creation tools do not embed all fonts, the fonts that are not embedded are in an exception list. Using those joboptions, members of the Adobe Garamond Pro font family should properly embed in PDF files created either by (a) printing to the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance under Windows, (b) using the native PDF export from Adobe graphic arts applications (Illustrator, InDesign, etc.) as long as you don't use the Smallest Size joboptions, or (c) when using Microsoft Office applications, you use the Adobe PDFMaker option for PDF creation, Save as Adobe PDF again as long as you don't use the Smallest Size joboptions.
That having been said, the fact that the Garamond fonts (I assume that you are referring to the TrueType Garamond font family that Microsoft bundles with Windows and Office) embeds and Adobe Garamond Pro font don't embed leads me to believe that your real problem is that you are creating PDF by using the fairly defective save as PDF which is native to Microsoft Office on Windows. One of a number of bugs or limitations in Microsoft's PDF creation is that although it embeds TrueType fonts and OpenType TrueType fonts, it fails to embed OpenType CFF fonts. Not only doesn't Microsoft embed those fonts in the PDF file, but it improperly references the fonts in the generated PDF file such that when you display and/or print such PDF files, even if you have Adobe Garamond Pro installed on your system, those fonts are not used for display or print. (We have informed Microsoft of this bug, but they are apparently not interested in fixing their bug!)
If you already have Acrobat installed on your system, use the Save as Adobe PDF (from the file screen) or Create Adobe PDF from the Acrobat tab on the Office ribbon. Set the preferences to at least Standard, but preferably Hiqh Quality Print joboptions and you will end up with a proper PDF with the Adobe Garamond Pro (or any OpenType fonts) properly embedded)!
- Dov -
Creating PS file with Adobe PDF very slow
Hallo Framers,
I use FrameMaker 7.1 and Distiller 8.1.3 under Windows XP.
As recommended in many posts on this forum, I have set Adobe PDF as my default printer. I use the Print To File setting and process the resulting PS with Distiller. However it is S-L-O-W. Making the PS of a 1250-page document takes less than 2 minutes when I use the driver of my PS printer (Xerox WorkCentre 7132PS), and 48 minutes using the Adobe PDF driver. The PS and PDF files are about the same size (900MB PS, 14MB PDF) and the appearance and links seem to be good in both.
I know that Tagged PDF can be slow, but I have switched that off in Format > Document > PDF Setup > Tags. Are there any other settings where I can speed up the Adobe PDF?
aTdHvAaNnKcSe (thanks in advance)
--- DerekSince my name has been used in vain here at least a few times ...
(1) My presentation from 2002 is somewhat dated. Acrobat 5 is four releases back from Acrobat 9, the current release. Likewise, the current FrameMaker at that time was FrameMaker 7.0, also four releases back from the current FrameMaker 9 (I am counting 7.1 and 7.2 as releases). Some of the recommendations from that 2002 still make sense and apply, others don't.
(2) For example, there is the issue of the spooling settings for the Advanced tab of the Adobe PDF PostScript Printer Driver Instance. Ideally, this should be set to Start printing after last page is spooled. But if you set that option for that particular printer instance under Windows Vista or Windows 7, you break Acrobat (it is a security “feature” added by Microsoft). Leave the setting at the default of Start printing immediately if you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7 (which of course implies that you must have Acrobat 8 or Acrobat 9).
(3) The glacial speed issue is really associated with the fact that there are a number of “layers” of code interpreting each of the calls made by FrameMaker to Windows GDI to pass not only graphics to the driver to be converted to PDF, but many fragments of PostScript for purposes of providing support for reflow, structure, links, etc. If you turn off those features you really don't need for a particular publication, you will likely see significant performance improvements. Alternatively, something that essentially saves just to file without going through the driver plug-in directly feeding the Distiller may also cut the overhead.
(4) There is no new printer driver dated from 2002 or otherwise on the Adobe website. I assume the reference is to the Adobe Universal PostScript Windows Driver Installer 1.0.6 dating back to 5/23/2002. First thing to know about this “installer” is that it won't run properly and may crash on Windows Vista and Windows 7 32-bit systems and won't run at all on 64-bit Windows systems. It is a 16-bit installer application that was originally designed for Windows'95 and Windows'98. The second and most important thing to understand is that it doesn't install any new driver on any OS versions other than Windows'9X, Windows ME, and Windows NT 4.0. For Windows 2000 and XP, it uses the existing Windows PSCRIPT5 driver and associates that with a PPD file to create a PostScript printer driver instance. Again, it installs nothing new. What you can do with this is to create a new PostScript printer driver instance using the Distiller PPD and set it to print to FILE: using that to create PostScript from FrameMaker and then funnel either manually or via a “watched folder” to the Distiller for creation of PDF from the PostScript.
- Dov -
Can you load a new versions of adobe on top of an older version without losing functionality?
User has Adobe standard 10. She has just purchased Adobe 11 pro. can she keep 10 and install 11 on top?
Although we don't fully prevent such installation, the fact is that at Adobe we most strongly discourage this. Over the years we have seen way too many problems users get into by trying to have such parallel installations.
Because Acrobat interacts with system drivers (the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance) and applications (the PDFMakers for Office and other applications) unlike other Adobe applications such as Photoshop or Illustrator, you cannot maintain full functionality for both versions and unless the old version is totally removed, you may experience conflicts.
If you are trying to use two versions for some type of enterprise testing purpose, we would strongly recommend that you do this with VMs (virtual machines), one with Acrobat 10 Standard and the other with Acrobat 11 Pro.
- Dov -
HP LaserJet P1102W - no print output in Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon Desktop
I've just done a default install of Linux Mint 17.1 - as feared, no print output.
I'm guessing I need to install a driver - but I couldn't find anything easily on HP site, only Windows/Mac OS stuff. Are HP printers generally linux friendly? Where can I download drivers if they are? More over, I'm a total linux newbie, so any drivers need to be easily installed! I'm not currently familiar with Terminal windows and line commands!
My printer does have wireless enabled, but I have it connected via direct USB also.
Linux Mint did offer to run a diagnostic tool/debugging tool which gave a great deal of what means nothing to me. Debug output is below if it is helpful, but hoping a simple driver install will cure all ...
Debug Output:
Page 1 (Scheduler not running?):
{'cups_connection_failure': False}
Page 2 (Is local server publishing?):
{'local_server_exporting_printers': False}
Page 3 (Choose printer):
{'cups_dest': <cups.Dest HP-LaserJet-Professional-P-1102w (default)>,
'cups_instance': None,
'cups_queue': u'HP-LaserJet-Professional-P-1102w',
'cups_queue_listed': True}
Page 4 (Check printer sanity):
{'cups_device_uri_scheme': u'hp',
'cups_printer_dict': {'device-uri': u'hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P_1102w?serial=000000000W4037X5PR1a',
'printer-info': u'Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet Professional P 1102w',
'printer-is-shared': True,
'printer-location': u'Leela',
'printer-make-and-model': u'HP LaserJet Professional P 1102w, hpcups 3.14.3, requires proprietary plugin',
'printer-state': 3,
'printer-state-message': u'',
'printer-state-reasons': [u'none'],
'printer-type': 167948,
'printer-uri-supported': u'ipp://localhost:631/printers/HP-LaserJet-Professional-P-1102w'},
'cups_printer_remote': False,
'hplip_output': (['',
'\x1b[01mHP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.3)\x1b[0m',
'\x1b[01mDevice Information Utility ver. 5.2\x1b[0m',
'Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP',
'This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.',
'This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it',
'under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.',
'\x1b[01mHP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.3)\x1b[0m',
'\x1b[01mSystem Tray Status Service ver. 2.0\x1b[0m',
'Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP',
'This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.',
'This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it',
'under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.',
'\x1b[01mhp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P_1102w?serial=000000000W4037X5PR1a\x1b[0m',
'\x1b[01mDevice Parameters (dynamic data):\x1b[0m',
'\x1b[01m Parameter Value(s) \x1b[0m',
' agent1-ack False ',
' agent1-desc Black toner cartridge ',
' agent1-dvc 0 ',
' agent1-health 0 ',
' agent1-health-desc Good/OK ',
' agent1-hp-ink False ',
' agent1-id 0 ',
' agent1-kind 4 ',
' agent1-known False ',
' agent1-level 100 ',
' agent1-level-trigger 0 ',
' agent1-sku 85A ',
' agent1-type 1 ',
' agent1-virgin False ',
' back-end hp ',
" cups-printers ['HP-LaserJet-Professional-P-1102w'] ",
' cups-uri hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P_1102w?serial=000000000W',
' 4037X5PR1a ',
' dev-file ',
' device-state 1 ',
' device-uri hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P_1102w?serial=000000000W',
' 4037X5PR1a ',
' deviceid MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL: LaserJet Professional P ',
' 1102w;CMD:ZJSJS,URF,PCLm,PJL,ACL,HTTCLSLSRINTER;DEHPHP ',
' LaserJet Presessional P 110;F;FWVER:20110826; ',
' duplexer 0 ',
' error-state 0 ',
' host ',
' in-tray1 1 ',
' in-tray2 1 ',
' is-hp True ',
' media-path 1 ',
' panel 0 ',
' panel-line1 ',
' panel-line2 ',
' photo-tray 0 ',
' port 1 ',
' r 0 ',
' revision 254 ',
' rg 000 ',
' rr 000000 ',
' rs 000000000 ',
' serial 000000000W4037X5PR1a ',
' status-code 1000 ',
' status-desc Idle ',
' supply-door 1 ',
' top-door 1 ',
'\x1b[01m',
'Model Parameters (static data):\x1b[0m',
'\x1b[01m Parameter Value(s) \x1b[0m',
' align-type 0 ',
' clean-type 0 ',
' color-cal-type 0 ',
' copy-type 0 ',
' embedded-server-type 0 ',
' fax-type 0 ',
' fw-download False ',
' icon HP_LaserJet_1012.png ',
' io-mfp-mode 6 ',
' io-mode 1 ',
' io-support 10 ',
' job-storage 0 ',
' linefeed-cal-type 0 ',
' model HP_LaserJet_Professional_P_1102w ',
' model-ui HP LaserJet Professional P 1102w ',
' model1 HP LaserJet Professional P 1102w Printer ',
' monitor-type 0 ',
' panel-check-type 0 ',
' pcard-type 0 ',
' plugin 1 ',
' plugin-reason 1 ',
' power-settings 0 ',
' pq-diag-type 0 ',
' r-type 0 ',
' r0-agent1-kind 4 ',
' r0-agent1-sku 85A ',
' r0-agent1-type 1 ',
' scan-src 0 ',
' scan-type 0 ',
' status-battery-check 0 ',
' status-dynamic-counters 0 ',
' status-type 8 ',
' support-released True ',
' support-subtype 2202411 ',
' support-type 2 ',
' support-ver 3.12.6 ',
" tech-class ['LJZjsMono'] ",
" tech-subclass ['NoAutoDuplex'] ",
' tech-type 3 ',
' usb-pid 4138 ',
' usb-vid 1008 ',
' wifi-config 3 ',
'Done.',
['\x1b[35;01mwarning: No display found.\x1b[0m',
'\x1b[31;01merror: hp-info -u/--gui requires Qt4 GUI support. Entering interactive mode.\x1b[0m',
'\x1b[35;01mwarning: No display found.\x1b[0m',
'\x1b[31;01merror: hp-systray requires Qt4 GUI and DBus support. Exiting.\x1b[0m',
'\x1b[35;01mwarning: Unable to connect to dbus. Is hp-systray running?\x1b[0m',
0),
'is_cups_class': False,
'local_cups_queue_attributes': {'charset-configured': u'utf-8',
'charset-supported': [u'us-ascii', u'utf-8'],
'color-supported': True,
'compression-supported': [u'none', u'gzip'],
'copies-default': 1,
'copies-supported': (1, 9999),
'cups-version': u'1.7.2',
'device-uri': u'hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Professional_P_1102w?serial=000000000W4037X5PR1a',
'document-format-default': u'application/octet-stream',
'document-format-supported': [u'application/octet-stream',
u'application/pdf',
u'application/postscript',
u'application/vnd.adobe-reader-postscript',
u'application/vnd.cups-pdf',
u'application/vnd.cups-pdf-banner',
u'application/vnd.cups-postscript',
u'application/vnd.cups-raster',
u'application/vnd.cups-raw',
u'application/x-cshell',
u'application/x-csource',
u'application/x-perl',
u'application/x-shell',
u'image/gif',
u'image/jpeg',
u'image/png',
u'image/tiff',
u'image/urf',
u'image/x-bitmap',
u'image/x-photocd',
u'image/x-portable-anymap',
u'image/x-portable-bitmap',
u'image/x-portable-graymap',
u'image/x-portable-pixmap',
u'image/x-sgi-rgb',
u'image/x-sun-raster',
u'image/x-xbitmap',
u'image/x-xpixmap',
u'image/x-xwindowdump',
u'text/css',
u'text/html',
u'text/plain'],
'finishings-default': 3,
'finishings-supported': [3],
'generated-natural-language-supported': [u'en-us'],
'ipp-versions-supported': [u'1.0',
u'1.1',
u'2.0',
u'2.1'],
'ippget-event-life': 15,
'job-creation-attributes-supported': [u'copies',
u'finishings',
u'ipp-attribute-fidelity',
u'job-hold-until',
u'job-name',
u'job-priority',
u'job-sheets',
u'media',
u'media-col',
u'multiple-document-handling',
u'number-up',
u'output-bin',
u'orientation-requested',
u'page-ranges',
u'print-color-mode',
u'print-quality',
u'printer-resolution',
u'sides'],
'job-hold-until-default': u'no-hold',
'job-hold-until-supported': [u'no-hold',
u'indefinite',
u'day-time',
u'evening',
u'night',
u'second-shift',
u'third-shift',
u'weekend'],
'job-ids-supported': True,
'job-k-limit': 0,
'job-k-octets-supported': (0, 476568600),
'job-page-limit': 0,
'job-priority-default': 50,
'job-priority-supported': [100],
'job-quota-period': 0,
'job-settable-attributes-supported': [u'copies',
u'finishings',
u'job-hold-until',
u'job-name',
u'job-priority',
u'media',
u'media-col',
u'multiple-document-handling',
u'number-up',
u'output-bin',
u'orientation-requested',
u'page-ranges',
u'print-color-mode',
u'print-quality',
u'printer-resolution',
u'sides'],
'job-sheets-default': (u'none', u'none'),
'job-sheets-supported': [u'none',
u'classified',
u'confidential',
u'form',
u'secret',
u'standard',
u'topsecret',
u'unclassified'],
'jpeg-k-octets-supported': (0, 476568600),
'jpeg-x-dimension-supported': (0, 65535),
'jpeg-y-dimension-supported': (1, 65535),
'marker-change-time': 0,
'media-bottom-margin-supported': [423, 547],
'media-col-default': u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
'media-col-supported': [u'media-bottom-margin',
u'media-left-margin',
u'media-right-margin',
u'media-size',
u'media-source',
u'media-top-margin',
u'media-type'],
'media-default': u'iso_a4_210x297mm',
'media-left-margin-supported': [423, 635],
'media-right-margin-supported': [423, 635],
'media-size-supported': [u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)',
u'(unknown IPP value tag 0x34)'],
'media-source-supported': [u'auto',
u'manual'],
'media-supported': [u'iso_a6_105x148mm',
u'iso_a5_148x210mm',
u'jpn_hagaki_100x148mm',
u'om_double-postcard_148.17x200.03mm',
u'om_jb5_182.12x257.05mm',
u'na_executive_7.25x10.5in',
u'om_16k195x270_195.09x269.88mm',
u'om_16k184x260_184.15x260mm',
u'oe_16k197x273_7.75x10.75in',
u'na_letter_8.5x11in',
u'iso_a4_210x297mm',
u'oe_flsa_8.5x13in',
u'na_legal_8.5x14in',
u'na_monarch_3.875x7.5in',
u'iso_dl_110x220mm',
u'na_number-10_4.125x9.5in',
u'iso_c5_162x229mm',
u'om_env-b5_176.04x250.12mm',
u'custom_min_3x5in',
u'custom_max_17x36in'],
'media-top-margin-supported': [423, 547],
'media-type-supported': [u'stationery'],
'multiple-document-handling-supported': [u'separate-documents-uncollated-copies',
u'separate-documents-collated-copies'],
'multiple-document-jobs-supported': True,
'multiple-operation-time-out': 300,
'natural-language-configured': u'en-us',
'notify-attributes-supported': [u'printer-state-change-time',
u'notify-lease-expiration-time',
u'notify-subscriber-user-name'],
'notify-events-default': [u'job-completed'],
'notify-events-supported': [u'job-completed',
u'job-config-changed',
u'job-created',
u'job-progress',
u'job-state-changed',
u'job-stopped',
u'printer-added',
u'printer-changed',
u'printer-config-changed',
u'printer-deleted',
u'printer-finishings-changed',
u'printer-media-changed',
u'printer-modified',
u'printer-restarted',
u'printer-shutdown',
u'printer-state-changed',
u'printer-stopped',
u'server-audit',
u'server-restarted',
u'server-started',
u'server-stopped'],
'notify-lease-duration-default': 86400,
'notify-lease-duration-supported': (0,
2147483647),
'notify-max-events-supported': [100],
'notify-pull-method-supported': [u'ippget'],
'notify-schemes-supported': [u'dbus',
u'mailto',
u'rss'],
'number-up-default': 1,
'number-up-supported': [1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 16],
'operations-supported': [2,
4,
5,
6,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
34,
35,
37,
38,
56,
57,
59,
16385,
16386,
16387,
16388,
16389,
16390,
16391,
16392,
16393,
16394,
16395,
16396,
16397,
16398,
16399,
16423,
14],
'orientation-requested-default': None,
'orientation-requested-supported': [3,
4,
5,
6],
'output-bin-default': u'face-down',
'output-bin-supported': [u'face-down'],
'page-ranges-supported': True,
'pages-per-minute': 1,
'pages-per-minute-color': 1,
'pdf-k-octets-supported': (0, 476568600),
'pdf-versions-supported': [u'adobe-1.2',
u'adobe-1.3',
u'adobe-1.4',
u'adobe-1.5',
u'adobe-1.6',
u'adobe-1.7',
u'iso-19005-1_2005',
u'iso-32000-1_2008',
u'pwg-5102.3'],
'pdl-override-supported': [u'attempted'],
'port-monitor': u'none',
'port-monitor-supported': [u'none'],
'ppd-timestamp': u'*',
'print-color-mode-default': u'color',
'print-color-mode-supported': [u'monochrome',
u'color'],
'print-quality-default': 4,
'print-quality-supported': [3, 4],
'printer-commands': u'none',
'printer-current-time': u'(IPP_TAG_DATE)',
'printer-dns-sd-name': u'Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet Professional P 1102w @ Leela',
'printer-error-policy': u'retry-job',
Hi @durandal,
I read your post and see that you need the drivers for the P1102w printer. I can provide the website for you.
Here is the link for the HP Linux Imaging and Printing website. HP Linux imaging and printing.
Here is the link for the P1102w drivers. HP LaserJet Professional p1102w Printer.
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ARIAL FONT IN REPORTS(WINDOWS), NOT SHOWN CORRECTLY UNDER LINUX
Our Reports are developed under Windows (Report Builder 9.0.4.0.33 and Windows 2000/Windows XP) and generated under Linux (IAS 10.1.2.0.2 with Red Hat Advanced Server). The Report Output is a PDF, that will be downloaded by the user with WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT. This works fine, but fonts are not shown correctly in the PDF, especially ARIAL, which is the font we use.
I have run the Fontsolution Configuration Script from Metalink, but we still have a problem.
When you look at the font.pdf, wich is the testreport from fontsolutions, some sizes and styles of Arial are printed correctly others not.
Arial 8 is ok, but Arial 10 and Arial 12 are something like Times New Roman.
Arial 12 Bolded is correct, but Arial 12 italic and Arial 12 bold italic are also not
the Arial Font.
How can we correct this problem?
Regards
Udo
These are the files changed by Fontsolution Configuration Script:
uifont.ali
# uifont.ali provided in fontsolutions.tar for developer 9.0.2
# $Header: uifont.ali@@/main/22 \
# Checked in on Tue Jan 8 15:32:42 PST 2002 by idc \
# Copyright (c) 1999, 2002 by Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved. \
# $
# $Revision: /main/22 $
# Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1994, 2002.
# All Rights Reserved.
# DESCRIPTION:
# Each line is of the form:
# <Face>.<Size>.<Style>.<Weight>.<Width>.<CharSet> = \
# <Face>.<Size>.<Style>.<Weight>.<Width>.<CharSet>
# The <Face> must be the name (string/identifier) of a font face. The
# <Style>, <Weight>, <Width>, and <CharSet> may either be a numeric
# value or a predefined identifier/string. For example, both US7ASCII
# and 1 are valid <CharSet> values, and refer to the same character set.
# The <Size> dimension must be an explicit size, in points.
# The following is a list of recognized names and their numeric
# equivalents:
# Styles Numeric value
# Plain 0
# Italic 1
# Oblique 2
# Underline 4
# Outline 8
# Shadow 16
# Inverted 32
# Overstrike 64
# Blink 128
# Weights Numeric value
# Ultralight 1
# Extralight 2
# Light 3
# Demilight 4
# Medium 5
# Demibold 6
# Bold 7
# Extrabold 8
# Ultrabold 9
# Widths Numeric value
# Ultradense 1
# Extradense 2
# Dense 3
# Semidense 4
# Normal 5
# Semiexpand 6
# Expand 7
# Extraexpand 8
# Ultraexpand 9
# Styles may be combined; you can use plus ("+") to delimit parts of a
# style. For example,
# Arial..Italic+Overstrike = Helvetica.12.Italic.Bold
# are equivalent, and either one will map any Arial that has both Italic
# and Overstrike styles to a 12-point, bold, italic Helvetica font.
# All strings are case-insensitive in mapping. Font faces are likely to
# be case-sensitive on lookup, depending on the platform and surface, so
# care should be taken with names used on the right-hand side; but they
# will be mapped case-insensitively.
# See your platform documentation for a list of all supported character
# sets, and available fonts.
# BUGS:
# o Should accept a RHS ratio (e.g., "Helv = Arial.2/3").
#===============================================================
[ Global ] # Put mappings for all surfaces here.
# Mapping from MS Windows
#Arial = helvetica
#"Courier New" = courier
#"Times New Roman" = times
#Modern = helvetica
#"MS Sans Serif" = helvetica
#"MS Serif" = times
#"Small Fonts" = helvetica
"Sadvocra" = helvetica..Oblique.Medium
"sAdC128d" = helvetica..Plain.Medium
"CarolinaBar-B39-25F2" = helvetica...Bold
#"IDAutomationSMICR" = helvetica
# Mapping from Macintosh
#"New Century Schlbk" = "new century schoolbook"
#"New York" = times
#geneva = helvetica
#===============================================================
[ Printer ] # Put mappings for all printers here.
#===============================================================
[ Printer:PostScript1 ] # Put mappings for PostScript level 1 printers here.
# Sample Kanji font mappings
...UltraLight..JEUC = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..JEUC
...UltraLight..SJIS = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..SJIS
...ExtraLight..JEUC = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..JEUC
...ExtraLight..SJIS = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..SJIS
...Light..JEUC = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..JEUC
...Light..SJIS = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..SJIS
...DemiLight..JEUC = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..JEUC
...DemiLight..SJIS = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..SJIS
.....JEUC = "GothicBBB-Medium-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Medium..JEUC
.....SJIS = "GothicBBB-Medium-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Medium..SJIS
# Mapping from MS Windows
#Roman = palatino
#Script = "itc zapf chancery"
#FixedSys = courier
#System = helvetica
# Mapping from Macintosh
#"Avant Garde" = "itc avant garde gothic"
# Mapping from Motif display
#fixed = courier
#clean = times
#lucidatypewriter = courier
#lucidabright = times
#Arial = helvetica
#"Courier New" = courier
#"Times New Roman" = times
# MICR font
#helvetica=IDAutomationSMICR
#===============================================================
[ Printer:PostScript2 ] # Put mappings for PostScript level 2 printers here.
# Sample Kanji font mappings
...UltraLight..JEUC = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..JEUC
...UltraLight..SJIS = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..SJIS
...ExtraLight..JEUC = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..JEUC
...ExtraLight..SJIS = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..SJIS
...Light..JEUC = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..JEUC
...Light..SJIS = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..SJIS
...DemiLight..JEUC = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..JEUC
...DemiLight..SJIS = "Ryumin-Light-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Light..SJIS
.....JEUC = "GothicBBB-Medium-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Medium..JEUC
.....SJIS = "GothicBBB-Medium-83pv-RKSJ-H"...Medium..SJIS
# Mapping from MS Windows
#Roman = palatino
#Script = "itc zapf chancery"
#FixedSys = courier
#System = helvetica
# Mapping from Macintosh
#"Avant Garde" = "itc avant garde gothic"
# Mapping from Motif display
#fixed = courier
#clean = times
#lucidatypewriter = courier
#lucidabright = times
#===============================================================
[ Printer:PCL5 ] # Put mappings for PCL 5 printers here.
helvetica = univers
times = "cg times"
clean = "antique olv"
fixed = courier
lucida = univers
lucidabright = "cg times"
lucidatypewriter = courier
"new century schoolbook" = univers
terminal = "line printer"
#===============================================================
[ Display ] # Put mappings for all display surfaces here.
#===============================================================
[ Display:Motif ] # Put mappings for Motif displays here
# Fix for bug no 778937 DO NOT MOVE!
Roman.....sjis = lucida.....jeuc
Script.....sjis = lucidabright.....jeuc
FixedSys.....sjis = fixed.....jeuc
System.....sjis = lucida.....jeuc
.....sjis = .....jeuc
# Mapping from MS Windows
Roman = lucida
Script = lucidabright
FixedSys = fixed
System = lucida
# Mapping from Macintosh
"Avant Garde" = helvetica
"Bookman" = times
#===============================================================
[ Display:CM ] # Put mappings for all CM displays here.
# These are DEC-specific, and may need localization
*..Blink = Blinking
*..Inverted+Underline.Bold = ReverseBoldUnderline
*..Inverted+Underline. = UnderlineReverse
*..Underline.Bold = UnderlineBold
*..Inverted.Bold = ReverseBold
*...Bold = Bold
*..Underline = Underline
*..Inverted = Reverse
* = Plain # The font of last resort
# Oracle Report PDF sections
# Three new sections have been added:
# [ PDF ] - Used for font aliasing and Multibyte language support
# [ PDF:Embed ] - Used for Type 1 font embedding
# [ PDF:Subset ] - Used for True Type Font subsetting
[ PDF ]
# This example shows how to rename helvetica font to Courier font
# helvetica = Courier
# You can Alias specific styles of font as below
# helvetica.12..Bold.. = Courier.14....
# "Lucida Bright".12..Bold = "New Century Schoolbook"
# Support for Far Eastern Languages:
# PDF section can be additionally used to enable Multibyte language support
# built into Reports. To use this feature with Adobe (r) Acrobat (c), you
# need to install the Asian font pack available online at the Adobe web site.
# .....SJIS = "HeiseiKakuGo-W5-Acro"
# A Japanese report run with Shift-JIS character set is replaced to
# HeiseiKakuGo-W5-Acro CID font.
arial = Arial
"arial" =Arial
"arial narrow" = "Arial Narrow"
"courier new" = "Courier New"
tahoma = Tahoma
"microsoft sans serif" = "Microsoft Sans Serif"
"ms sans serif" = "MS Sans Serif"
"times new roman" = "Times New Roman"
[ PDF:Embed ]
# This example shows how to embed Type 1 helvetica font into the PDF file:
# helvetica = "helvetica.afm helvetica.pfa"
# You need to specify the .afm file before the .pfa file.
# The font files must exist in one of the folders specified in REPORTS_PATH.
[ PDF:Subset ]
# This example shows how to subset Arial True Type font into the PDF file:
# helvetica = "Arial.ttf"
# The True Type font files must exist in any one of the folders specified in
# REPORTS_PATH.
helvetica..Oblique.Medium = "Sadvocra.ttf"
helvetica..Plain.Medium = "Sadc128d.ttf"
helvetica...Bold = "CarolinaBar-B39-25F2-Normal.ttf"
# NOTES ON PRECEDENCE OF PDF SECTIONS:
# If you have entries for a same font in many PDF sections, then Font
# Aliasing entry will take precedence over Font Embedding entry. Entries
# in Font Embedding will take precedence over the entries in Font Subsetting
# section.
# Generic entries for a font must follow more specific entries for the same
# font. For instance, if you want to subset helvetica Plain, helvetica Bold,
# helvetica Italic and helvetica Bold-Italic fonts, your entries must be:
# [ PDF:Subset ]
# helvetica..Italic.Bold.. = "Arialbi.ttf"
# helvetica...Bold.. = "Arialb.ttf"
# helvetica..Italic... = "Ariali.ttf"
# helvetica..... = "Arial.ttf"
# If helvetica..... entry appears in the top of the list, all the styles of
# helvetica font in the layout will be subset as helvetica Plain font.
uiprint.txt
# This is the printer configuration file.
# The format for entries in this file is:
# <OSName>:<Type>:<Version>:<Long Name>:<Description File>:
# The first field is the name of the printer. It is the name you give
# to lpq.
# The second field is the type of driver to be used for the printer.
# Currently, "PostScript" and "ASCII" are the only types of driver for
# printers supported for now. But in future we may be supporting
# drivers for other printer types.
# The third field is the version of the type of printer driver. It's 1
# or 2 for all PostScript printers; or 1 for ASCII printers.
# The fourth field is a long description of the printer. This will be
# presented to the user in the "Choose Printer" dialog window.
# The fifth field is the printer description file to be used. For
# PostScript printers it is the PPD file of the printer. (This field is
# currently unused for ASCII printers.)
# You can use default.ppd for the description file if you don't have a
# PPD file for the printer, but it's best to use the correct PPD file
# for the printer.
# You must fill in at least the first two fields (printer name and
# type). If the version is empty, it defaults to "1"; if the long name
# or description are empty, they will default to empty strings. A
# version of 1 or an empty long name is fine, but, for PostScript
# printers, you must fill in the description file name.
# You don't have to update this file to use any printer. The printer
# chooser interface let's you select a printer and driver at run time,
# as well as associate a printer description file to the printer. You
# should list all printers accessible to users here, however, to
# simplify selecting a printer.
# The first entry in this file will be used as the default printer, if
# no printer was selected in the operating system. (For Unix, the
# following environment variables will be used in turn to get the
# default printer's name:
# TK2_PRINTER
# ORACLE_PRINTER
# PRINTER
# For other platforms, see the Installation and User's Guide for your OS
# for information on setting the default printer.)
# WARNING: Do not define multiple entries for the same printer by the
# same name. Selecting a printer with multiple entries will always result
# in the first entry being selected. Instead, see if your OS allows you
# to create an alias for the printer, and use an alias for the second type.
# The following are examples; replace them with printers accessible from
# this machine.
# hqunx15:PostScript:1:The really slow printer on 12th floor:dcln03r1.ppd:
# hqdev2_pos:PostScript:1:The fast ScriptPrinter in 1281:dclps321.ppd:
# hqunx106:ASCII:1:LNO printer in the 11th floor printer room:none:
# hqdev9:PostScript:1:Bogus printer for Reports ASCII QA:default.ppd:
# hqunx121:PostScript:1:APO printer in 500OP for NLS QA:ok800lt1.ppd:
# --- Note that the following two printers are aliases for the same
# --- physical printer, with different names for different types:
# tk2hp4m:PCL:5:HP printer in 771 for testing PCL:ui4.hpd:
# tk2bw1ps:PostScript:1:HP printer in 771 for testing PS:hp4mp6_1.ppd:
# Not A Printer:ASCII:1:Configure your uiprint.txt file:none:
fontprinter:PostScript:1:printer for fonting fixes:default.ppd:
datap462.ppd
*PPD-Adobe: "4.0"
*% Adobe Systems PostScript(R) Printer Description File
*% Copyright 1987-1992 Adobe Systems Incorporated.
*% All Rights Reserved.
*% Permission is granted for redistribution of this file as
*% long as this copyright notice is intact and the contents
*% of the file is not altered in any way from its original form.
*% End of Copyright statement
*FormatVersion: "4.0"
*FileVersion: "3.1"
*PCFileName: "DATAP462.PPD"
*LanguageVersion: English
*Product: "(Dataproducts LZR 2665)"
*PSVersion: "(46.2) 1"
*ModelName: "Dataproducts LZR-2665"
*NickName: "Dataproducts LZR-2665 v46.2"
*% ==== Options and Constraints =====
*OpenGroup: InstallableOptions/Options Installed
OpenUI Option1/Optional Lower Tray: Boolean
*DefaultOption1: False
*Option1 True/Installed: ""
*Option1 False/Not Installed: ""
CloseUI: Option1
*CloseGroup: InstallableOptions
UIConstraints: Option1 False *InputSlot Lower
*% General Information and Defaults ===============
*ColorDevice: False
*DefaultColorSpace: Gray
*FreeVM: "178744"
*LanguageLevel: "1"
*VariablePaperSize: False
*FileSystem: False
*Throughput: "26"
*Password: "0"
*ExitServer: "
count 0 eq { % is the password on the stack?
true
dup % potential password
statusdict /checkpassword get exec not
} ifelse
{ % if no password or not valid
(WARNING : Cannot perform the exitserver command.) =
(Password supplied is not valid.) =
(Please contact the author of this software.) = flush
quit
} if
serverdict /exitserver get exec
*End
*Reset: "
count 0 eq { % is the password on the stack?
true
dup % potential password
statusdict /checkpassword get exec not
} ifelse
{ % if no password or not valid
(WARNING : Cannot reset printer.) =
(Password supplied is not valid.) =
(Please contact the author of this software.) = flush
quit
} if
serverdict /exitserver get exec
systemdict /quit get exec
(WARNING : Printer Reset Failed.) = flush
*End
*DefaultResolution: 300dpi
*?Resolution: "
save
initgraphics
0 0 moveto currentpoint matrix defaultmatrix transform
0 72 lineto currentpoint matrix defaultmatrix transform
3 -1 roll sub dup mul
3 1 roll exch sub dup mul
add sqrt round cvi
( ) cvs print (dpi) = flush
restore
*End
*% Halftone Information ===============
*ScreenFreq: "50.0"
*ScreenAngle: "54.0"
*DefaultScreenProc: Dot
*ScreenProc Dot: " {dup mul exch dup mul add sqrt 1 exch sub } "
*ScreenProc Line: "{ pop }"
*ScreenProc Ellipse: "
{ dup 5 mul 8 div mul exch dup mul exch add sqrt 1 exch sub }"
*End
*DefaultTransfer: Null
*Transfer Null: "{ }"
*Transfer Null.Inverse: "{ 1 exch sub }"
*% Paper Handling ===================
*% Use these entries to set paper size most of the time, unless there is
*% specific reason to use PageRegion.
*OpenUI *PageSize: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 30 AnySetup *PageSize
*DefaultPageSize: Letter
*PageSize Letter: "statusdict /lettertray get exec letterR"
*PageSize Letter.Transverse: "statusdict /lettertray get exec letter"
*PageSize Legal: "statusdict /legaltray get exec"
*PageSize Ledger: "statusdict /ledgertray get exec"
*PageSize Statement: "statusdict /statementtray get exec"
*PageSize Tabloid: "statusdict /11x17tray get exec"
*PageSize A3: "statusdict /a3tray get exec"
*PageSize A4: "statusdict /a4tray get exec a4R"
*PageSize A4.Transverse: "statusdict /a4tray get exec a4"
*PageSize A5: "statusdict /a5tray get exec"
*PageSize B4: "statusdict /b4tray get exec"
*PageSize B5: "statusdict /b5tray get exec b5R"
*PageSize B5.Transverse: "statusdict /b5tray get exec b5"
*CloseUI: *PageSize
*% These entries will set up the frame buffer. Usually used with manual feed.
*OpenUI *PageRegion: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 40 AnySetup *PageRegion
*DefaultPageRegion: Letter
*PageRegion Letter: "letterR"
*PageRegion Letter.Transverse: "letter"
*PageRegion Legal: "legal"
*PageRegion Ledger: "ledger"
*PageRegion Tabloid: "11x17"
*PageRegion A3: "a3"
*PageRegion A4: "a4R"
*PageRegion A4.Transverse: "a4"
*PageRegion A5: "a5"
*PageRegion B4: "b4"
*PageRegion B5: "b5R"
*PageRegion B5.Transverse: "b5"
*PageRegion Statement: "statement"
*CloseUI: *PageRegion
*% The following entries provide information about specific paper keywords.
*DefaultImageableArea: Letter
*ImageableArea Letter: "20 16 591 775 "
*ImageableArea Letter.Transverse: "18 19 593 773 "
*ImageableArea Legal: "18 19 593 990 "
*ImageableArea Ledger: "18 16 1205 775 "
*ImageableArea Tabloid: "16 19 775 1206 "
*ImageableArea A3: "18 21 823 1170 "
*ImageableArea A4: "18 18 576 823 "
*ImageableArea A4.Transverse: "18 19 577 823 "
*ImageableArea A5: "18 19 401 577 "
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Arial is owned by monotype (http://monotype.com/). You have to contact them if you wish to redistribute it with your application. They also might have a suitable version that renders nicely under linux.
Pete -
An issue that has come up over and over again on several FrameMaker and Acrobat/PDF email lists as well on the corresponding Adobe User-to-User forums is that of creation of PDF files. FrameMaker 5.5.6 and 6 have what looks like a convenient feature that is supposed to allow you to create PDF files via simply saving the document as a PDF file. I have gone on record as advising end-users not to use this approach for reliable creation of PDF files from FrameMaker documents under Windows and MacOS with FrameMaker 6 and earlier. Why do I most vociferously offer this advice and why doesn't the problem get fixed? And how SHOULD you create PDF files from FrameMaker?
GOOD NEWS
I will start with the good news. The "next major version" of FrameMaker will indeed have "save as PDF" re-implemented in a manner that it will be as reliable as printing to the "Acrobat Distiller" printer instance under Windows or the "Create Adobe PDF" desktop printer under MacOS. I am personally working with the FrameMaker development organization to make sure this really happens and is fully and properly tested and debugged! Furthermore, this next major revision of FrameMaker, unlike FrameMaker 6, will come with a Distiller installer that will properly install the "Acrobat Distiller" printer instance under Windows and the "Create Adobe PDF" desktop printer on the Macintosh (of course assuring that the latest PostScript driver is also automatically and correctly installed).
DON'T USE "SAVE AS PDF"
But what's wrong with "save as PDF" as currently implemented?
The following are some of the SYMPTOMS reported over the last few years by FrameMaker users that were traced back to use of "save as PDF" under FrameMaker:
(1) No PDF file is produced at all, possibly with a log file showing not-readily apparent PostScript errors during distillation.
(2) The PDF file "loses" color in images. All or some images (raster, bitmap images, NOT vector artwork) appear in the PDF file in grayscale.
(3) The resultant PDF file is on the wrong paper size, i.e., the document's logical page size does not match the output page size as seen in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader.
(4) Some or all text in the resultant PDF file is blotchy looking or overly bold.
(5) Some or all text in the resultant PDF file cannot be searched or indexed.
(6) Some or all text in the resultant PDF file appears in Courier or in some other substitution font.
(7) Interword or intercharacter spacing is a bit irregular in the resultant PDF file.
(8) Content is missing in the margin areas of the page, i.e. you cannot do full-page bleeds.
(9) Some or all page content is missing (other than margin areas).
(10) Relatively inefficient PDF is generated.
If this list by itself isn't enough for you, please note that some of these symptoms are very subtle and may escape attention when the PDF is first viewed or printed. Oftimes, it is when one attempts to manipulate the PDF file in Acrobat or repurpose its content or even view or print on a system other than the one on which the PDF file was created, that some of these symptoms make themselves obnoxiously visible (or invisible in some cases I won't make any bad jokes here about graphic examples!).
It is important to understand that FrameMaker does NOT have its own native ability to create PDF. Any and all PDF created from FrameMaker documents is actually done by creating PostScript via the PostScript driver and having the Acrobat Distiller create PDF from that PostScript. The only exception to this is creation of PDF via the Acrobat PDFWriter driver, which is likewise not recommended (see below).
In order for "save as PDF" to work correctly, FrameMaker must do the equivalent of calling Printer Setup and selecting the "Acrobat Distiller" printer instance under Windows or the "Create Adobe PDF" desktop printer under MacOS followed by setting the driver's options correctly for paper size, page range, etc., followed by sending the proper commands to the driver to create PostScript.
Contrary to popular belief, PostScript as generated by the Windows and MacOS PostScript drivers is VERY device-dependent. The information in the PPD file associated with a printer driver instance provides critical parameters for generation of PostScript including:
Whether the printer supports color (Acrobat Distiller does)
What PostScript language level is supported (Acrobat Distiller 4.x and Acrobat Distiller 5.x are both PostScript language level 3)
Whether native TrueType support is available (Acrobat supports native TrueType as Type 42 fonts)
Available binary communications (Acrobat Distiller supports pure binary and ASCII, but NOT TCP, TBCP, or PJL)
Resident fonts (Acrobat Distiller doesn't really have resident fonts)
Available paper sizes and custom paper size availability (Acrobat Distiller supports a wide range of predefined sizes and continually variable "custom" sizes up to 200" by 200")
Margins / printable areas (for PDF and the Acrobat Distiller, there are no margins in which imaging is not permitted)
Device resolution (Acrobat Distiller can be set to any value from 72 to 4000 dpi; as a convenience, the Acrobat Distiller PPD provides a series of values for use by the driver. Since there is no inherent "resolution" of a PDF file, this parameter is used only for purposes of allowing PostScript programs that query for such a value to be satisfied and for the driver to be able to communicate this value to the operating system and/or application as required.)
Paper handling (totally irrelevant to Acrobat Distiller if input or output tray selection via "setpagedevice" is found in the PostScript stream, it is ignored by Acrobat Distiller)
Thus, if the wrong printer driver instance is selected (i.e., it isn't associated with the Acrobat Distiller PPD file) or that driver instance is improperly configured, improper PostScript will result and one or more of the symptoms described above can occur. As currently implemented, FrameMaker depending upon version will not necessarily choose the correct printer driver instance and/or correctly parameterize the print job via driver setup options. In fact, FrameMaker 5,5,6 might even try to generate PDF via calling a PCL driver, FAX driver, or even a non-PostScript inkjet printer!
DON'T USE PDFWRITER
The Acrobat PDFWriter is a relic of older versions of Acrobat. In fact, it is no longer installed by default in the "easy install" or the "typical install" of Acrobat 5. It hasn't really be updated since Acrobat 3 and only supports PDF 1.2. It is a GDI (Windows) / QuickDraw (MacOS) driver that directly generates PDF without any intermediary PostScript. Since it is not a PostScript printer driver, applications cannot pass through EPS graphics and/or PDFMark information (used for a wide variety of purposes by FrameMaker). For EPS graphics, most applications will send the low resolution TIFF (or PICT) EPS header in lieu of the PostScript text, if they send anything at all, to the driver. Forget about links, structure, or any other PDF "goodies." Expect that PDFWriter will fully "bite the dust" in the next major version of Acrobat.
SO HOW DO I GENERATE PDF FILES FROM FRAMEMAKER 6 & EARLIER?
The ONLY method that is really reliable for producing PDF files with FrameMaker 6 and earlier requires the generation of PostScript via a properly set printer driver instance associated with the Acrobat Distiller PPD and distillation of the resultant PostScript by Acrobat Distiller.
Case 1: FrameMaker and the Full Acrobat 4.05 or Acrobat 5.0x Products
PDF file from a "chapter" -- print directly to the Acrobat Distiller printer instance (Windows) or the Create Adobe PDF desktop printer (MacOS) already installed by Acrobat. If you check the "Acrobat data" option, then make sure to UNcheck the "print to file" option that gets set at the same time. As a result, the driver will automatically send the generated PostScript to the Distiller for you and delete the intermediate PostScript when done.
PDF file from a "book" -- print directly to the Acrobat Distiller printer instance with the "print to file" option checked (Windows) or the Virtual Printer desktop printer (MacOS) associated with the Distiller PPD (see details below under Case 2/MacOS). You will need to manually process the resultant PostScript file through the Distiller (or use a "watched folder" arrangement).
In both the above sub-cases, the default driver options generally will be OK, but check on paper size and communication protocol (Use pure binary, not ASCII, for optimal performance AND no CTRL-D characters under Windows. Make sure to set Level 3 only and Binary under MacOS. Font inclusion "All" for Acrobat 4.05 and "None" for Acrobat 5 under MacOS.). With Acrobat 4.05, make sure you preset the Distiller to use the joboptions you want. With Acrobat 5, you can set this on a job-by-job basis via the driver printer setup interface (or print dialog on MacOS).
Case 2: FrameMaker 6 and the Bundled Acrobat 4.05 Distiller
Windows -- Create a new printer driver instance using the latest version of the Adobe Universal PostScript Driver Installer, downloadable from Adobe's web site AND the Acrobat Distiller PPD file (located in the XTRAS subdirectory of the Distiller directory). This driver instance should be set to print to the local port named "FILE:". Name this driver instance as "Acrobat Distiller". The default driver options generally will be OK, but check on paper size and communication protocol (use pure binary, not ASCII, for optimal performance AND no CTRL-D characters). Make sure you preset the Distiller to use the joboptions you want. Print directly to this Acrobat Distiller printer instance. Make sure that the "print to file" option is checked. You will need to manually process the resultant PostScript file through the Distiller (or use a "watched folder" arrangement).
MacOS -- Install the latest version of AdobePS 8.7.x, downloadable from Adobe's web site. In FrameMaker, go to Page Setup and select the "Virtual Printer" and go to the "Virtual Printer" window pane. Select the Acrobat Distiller PPD file (located in the XTRAS subfolder of the Distiller folder). Print directly to the "Virtual Printer" (Make sure to set Level 3 only, Binary, and font inclusion "All".). Make sure you preset the Distiller to use the joboptions you want. You will need to manually process the resultant PostScript file through the Distiller (or use a "watched folder" arrangement).
Case 3: Acrobat 3
Acrobat 3 is not officially supported for the latest OS versions and I personally would no longer recommend its use for generation of PDF files given that Acrobat 5.0.5 is the current version of Acrobat.
- DovYou're asking a lot of ancient Acrobat to work with an Office that never existed when it was made. "Just updated my office suite" is a massive change, and Window 8 didn't exist at that time either...
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Strange transparency problem trying to print a pdf made in Pages
Hello,
Let me apologize in advance for this one, I think it's probably a doosy.
Not having the know-how to efficiently do a layout in InDesign, I have been doing print projects in Pages. It has worked fine in the past to print to Adobe PDF postscript from Pages, open up Distiller and convert to a CMYK pdf from there. For my current project it worked fine for the first 2 renditions, but for the 3rd edition (incidentally the one the printing company printed) looked very "muddy." Fonts were very rough and rasterized badly, and the whole thing looked kind of "brown-washed". They claimed to use a program called "Apogee" which they said told them there was a transparent layer over everything, converting all the fonts to CMYK and thus making them lose their nice crisp blackness.They've also said that it must be a setting in Pages that has caused this, but I can't see how that's possible! When I look at the source file in pages there is no such transparency. Several of the images do have their opacity decreased to varying degrees to help the whole piece blend, however this transparency they say Apogee pulled off the top cannot be seen from my end. We are down to the wire trying to get this job to print again, but I am stumped as to how to ensure that this rendition of the file will be done correctly.
As perhaps a side note, Distiller seems to be a pretty quirky application for me, often failing to convert on the first or second try, but somehow "magically" working on the second or third attempt for no apparent reason and without doing anything differently.
Thanks so much for any help - I am definitely cracking out the books and forcing myself to learn InDesign after this nightmare!
- A-J L.They claimed to use a program called "Apogee"
Agfa Apogee, introduced in 1998, was simply the first prepress workflow product that processed page-independent PDF instead of processing page-dependent PostScript into an internal and intermediate display list prior to marking. The prepress operator would be using Apogee to preflight the PDF you submit as printing master, and the problems found in the preflight are those of which you were informed.
As perhaps a side note, Distiller seems to be a pretty quirky application for me,
Adobe Acrobat Distiller has been difficult to configure since the day it was introduced.
Adobe Acrobat Distiller is a PostScript interpreter that converts page-dependent PostScript page description programs into page-independent PDF page descriptions without programming loops and links that produce dependencies. PDF uses a directory design for the objects in the page descriptions, a design that originates with Xerox Interpress (the idea of a directory is in fact printed on page 390 of "Interpress - The Source Book" by Harrington and Buckley published in 1988).
converting all the fonts to CMYK and thus making them lose their nice crisp blackness.They've also said that it must be a setting in Pages that has caused this, but I can't see how that's possible!
It is left to 'application intelligence' whether to match RGB black for type to CMYK black for type or to match RGB black for type to separationBlack for one plate/plane on a four plate/plane offset press. The problem with an offset press is that it lays down the inks at inking units that are some distance apart which invites misregistration. QuarkXPress, PageMaker, InDesign and other authoring applications developed for PostScript imaging on offset presses have ink palettes with four fixed inks of which Black produces separationBlack.
Pages does not have this possibility, so if you want your type to image as deviceK / separationBlack then you need to select your type and apply the following procedure, or set up styles with the following procedure applied. Open the Apple Colour Palette, select the CMYK slider mode, select some type, select the Advanced icon (the colour space icon on the left), in the drop-down menu select Device CMYK, and set the slider to C0, M0, Y0, K100. This procedure can be used by the typographer to control that deviceK / separationBlack is imaged, but for as long as Microsoft Word has produced type that is RGB, prepress processes have intercepted this in PostScript and reset it to deviceK / separationBlack including Helios colour management for OPI.
In prepress there is no way to please all parties. If you as developer say, "OK, I'll set the type to deviceK and then show this colour managed on the display" then you will have designers and people who write for designers like Sandee Cohen yelling at you for making type less black than they think type should be, even if in fact the colour of type printed on diffusing uncoated paper is way lighter than they think. And if you say, "OK, I'll set the type to R0 G0 B0 so it is as black as the designers think type should be" then you'll have the prepress crowd with their offset presses yelling at you. Neither party accept that black is a colour, one wants type to be as black as possible regardless and the other party wants type to mark on one and only one printing plate/plane regardless.
converting all the fonts to CMYK and thus making them lose their nice crisp blackness
I would wager a box of Carlsberg beer that the prepress operator is ignorant of the controls in Agfa Apogee, and that Agfa Apogee has a control to catch RGB type and convert to deviceK / separationBlack. Try telling the prepress operator to READ the manual -:).
Several of the images do have their opacity decreased to varying degrees to help the whole piece blend, however this transparency they say Apogee pulled off the top cannot be seen from my end.
Generally speaking, you should not be sending plain PDF to prepress. You should be sending PDF/X-3 which depends on you as designer flattening transparency, or better still PDF/X-4 which passes the problem of flattening transparency to the application intelligence of the prepress raster processing system. PDF 1.3 does not support transparency nor does EPS and nor does PostScript any language level.
/hh -
Try this if you use mac.
Create a multiple page PDF. Three pages.
Go to print. - Multiple pages per sheet so that you see all three pages on your sheet to be printed.
At this point, on a windows machine, you can print this as a PDF. On Mac, it only lets you save as PDF (Not with the format selected).
WHY has this functionality been removed from the Mac version of Acrobat XI??? Adobe?Jon,
Unfortunately, Rave's response is quite incorrect on two major points.
The Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance was indeed part of the Macintosh version of Acrobat Pro until a few years ago.
However, it was NOT Adobe that killed the feature. Apple did! In one of the MacOS updates, Apple fully removed the capability that Adobe had to support this virtual printer. There was nothing that Adobe could do about this, regrettably. Adobe didn't cripple anything. Complain to Apple!
However, Adobe does provide a replacement for it that will yield similar results, but it is not available in Acrobat or Adobe Reader!!! In most applications' print dialogs (such as Word) - which printer you select is irrelevant, click on the PDF button and select the Save as Adobe PDF option. This will save your document as a PDF file with Adobe technology. But again, this is not available from with Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
However, you should note that the process that you previously followed and you would like to continue to use is commonly referred to as “refrying a PDF” and is strongly discouraged even where it continues to work under Windows. Why? The print function of Adobe applications including Acrobat and Reader is optimized for PostScript for printing, not for creation of PDF. Resultant PDF files have lost any transparency (it has been flattened) and all color management has been lost.
What you are really trying to do is to create a pre-imposed PDF file from an existing PDF file. Going through PostScript was and still is a very bad idea.
There are some third party plug-ins to Acrobat, such as Quite Imposing (Quite Software, <http://www.quite.com>) and PDF Snake (<http://www.pdfsnake.com>) as well as some “free” (you get what you pay for) solutions you can look up on the web that can do PDF imposition without ruining your PDF via PostScript.
Hopefully this can assist you.
- Dov
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