ANNOUNCEMENT!! Updated Windows PostScript Drivers Available (6/24/2001)

Question

On June 22, 2001, Adobe Systems Incorporated posted Version 1.0.4 of the Adobe Universal Windows PostScript Driver Installer on its web site at:
It is available for fifteen languages.
Depending upon the version of Windows on which it is run upon, it installs and updates the PostScript driver as follows:
Windows'95, Windows'98, and Windows ME
- AdobePS 4.5.1
Windows'NT 4
- AdobePS 5.2 (plus AdobePS 4.5.1 for download to
Windows'95, Windows'98, and Windows Me clients
of network printers)
Windows 2000
- PSCRIPT5 5.2 (plus AdobePS 4.5.1 for download to
Windows'95, Windows'98, and Windows Me clients
AND AdobePS 5.2 for Windows NT 4 clients
of network printers)
These are the same versions of the drivers that ship with Adobe Acrobat 5. To create new printer driver instances, users of Acrobat 5 should NEVER use earlier versions of the Adobe Universal Windows PostScript Driver Installer than that on the Acrobat 5 CDROM or this version. These drivers have features REQUIRED for proper coordination of the PostScript driver with Acrobat Distiller 5.
Note that the PSCRIPT 5 5.2 driver provided in this installer is NEWER than the driver in the Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2. Good news - running either of those service packs will NOT overwrite this newer version of PSCRIPT 5 with an older version if you run this installer first.
This installer should be run to either (1) update the existing driver and its instances to the latest version of AdobePS and/or PSCRIPT 5 and/or (2) to create new PostScript driver printer instances.
In addition to support for Acrobat Distiller 5, AdobePS 5.2 and PSCRIPT5 5.2 provide the following new features under "Device Settings" to users of Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 that were previously only available for users of AdobePS 4.4 and later under Windows'9x/Me:
(1) "True gray" support options for both vector graphics and text. Defaulted to "no" values, when set to "yes" the "Convert Gray Text to PostScript Gray" and "Convert Gray Graphics to PostScript Gray" assume that for all text and vector graphics objects respectively, color values in which the red (R), green (G), and blue (B) values match are really an expression of grayscale as opposed to RGB color. The default "no" results in those RGB values passed through to the printer or Distiller as-is. The "yes" value can dramatically improve output quality for black and grayscale text and vector graphics for PostScript color printers that do not automatically make assumptions about and convert R=G=B values to K values. The "yes" value also assists in creating prepress-friendly PostScript and PDF from applications that do not generate their own PostScript (including Adobe FrameMaker, Microsoft Office, and other popular office suite and productivity programs). [I recommend that users always set these values to "yes" - Dov.]
(2) Add Euro Currency Symbol to PostScript Fonts. Defaulted to a "yes" value, this option tries to augment older text Type 1 "device fonts," i.e. those text fonts that are printer-resident, with a definition for the Euro character when necessary. This option does NOT affect host-based Type 1 or TrueType fonts that are downloaded to the printer as needed.
[Windows 2000 users should be aware of one remaining problem for which Adobe is currently working for a "fix." Some, but not all applications that do not generate their own PostScript or manage their own fonts (including Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Word) display text formatted in ITC Zapf Dingbats and possibly Carta and other selected symbol fonts as "Wingdings" on the screen although the characters have the "widths" of the correct font. However, these characters do print correctly on paper or in PDF created via distillation. The problem is a bit more complex than just a fix to the driver. A workaround of deleting references to such fonts from the PPDs of PostScript printers is only a partially-effective workaround. Again, Adobe is working on a fix for this problem.]
- Dov

Answer 1

If you try Creative WDM driver (MME or DS) w/ other software, does those work?
If not, then you need to re-install Creative bundled drivers.
You can test both w/ NI BeatPort Player as for an example (or w/ Winamp, etc. (w/ Winamp, you can also use Kernel Streaming or ASIO output plugin which both gives maybe a bit better output quality)).
How 'bout those windows audio settings (start run.. mmsys.cpl)?
KS for Winamp - http://www.stevemonks.com/ksplugin/
ASIO for Winamp - http://otachan.com/
Asio4all - http://www.asio4all.com (needed w/ ASIO)
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