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An entirely different font set is supplied with DeskJets and LaserJets.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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" AA Smith" <SmithRMS@Comcast.net> wrote in message
news:%23tBkJyAtFHA.1568@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi, Tom!
>
> Courier New prints, but it's MUCH to faint for use in submitting
manuscripts
> to prospective publishers. He needs to be able to use the standard
> PostScript font. I thought that font came with all HP printers (his is a
> DeskJet 940c and he's running WinXP Home. I don't know which SP. Where
> would we look on his system for the PS font/s. Might he need to reinstall
> drivers?
> --
> With kindest regards,
>
> Dick Smith
> "Tom Ferguson" <tomf@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:ebolJI1sFHA.3180@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >I am going to avoid a discussion of the ins and outs of this mess,
> > involving as it does font substitution and font substitution tables in
> > Windows and printer drivers, and jump to a possible solution.
> >
> > Install the PostScript Courier font set (regular, bold, italic, bold
> > italic) on Windows and try to print. If you are not getting the desired
> > result (Courier New might print instead), we can look into various
> > settings.
> >
> > You can purchase the set from Linotype or other good sources. You can
also
> > download an older version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, copy the font files
to
> > a purpose-created directory, and from there, install them.
> >
> > If you have a Windows NT system (including Windows 2000, Windows XP,
> > Windows Server 2003) you can install them in the usual way be they
> > TrueType or PostScript format.
> >
> > If you have a Windows 9x system and are installing the PS font versions,
> > download and install Adobe Type Manager (free download from
> > http://www.adobe.com) and use that to install the fonts.
> >
> > Let us know.
> > Tom
> > MSMVP
> > Windows Shell/User
> > PS
> > Older Acrobat Reader versions here:
> >
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=acrobat
> > Get v2 or 3.
> >
> > PPS
> > Hewlett Packard lasers' native printer language is referred to as HP PCL
> > (Hewlett Packard Page Control Language). Their printer with PCL
> > rasterisers and PCL drivers typically contain 45 TrueType fonts
resident.
> > Among these are the Courier family. Their printers capable of handling
> > PostScript page description language typically have the standard 35
> > PostScript Type 1 fonts that have been customary since the beginning of
> > widespread PS printer and font use. Courier is among these as well. In
> > addition, the CD (or floppies from days of yore) that contain the other
> > software for the printer, often contained full files for these fonts.
> > These files were meant to be installed on the computer to provide
"screen
> > fonts" to match the printer resident fonts. They are fully-functional
font
> > files. Otherwise, when a printer-resident font was specified for
printing,
> > Windows would have to substitute another font to provide a screen
display.
> > Thus screen and printout would not match.
> >
> > There are two reasons I write this. One is to say that the software
> > packages you can download from HP's web site have among them some that
> > have the Courier font files. Alas, sometimes the package is compressed
in
> > such a way that it is not easy to extract just the font files.
> > T.
> >
> >
> >
> > " AA Smith" <SmithRMS@Comcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:OCE3fAwsFHA.460@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > : I'm trying to help a friend in Houston install a Courier font on his
> > : computer. I'm in the Dallas-Fort Worth MetromessHe has an HP DeskJet
> > 940c
> > : printer. I thought the Courier font came standard (pre-installed) on
HP
> > : printers, but apparently not. The standard Courier (not Courier New)
> > font
> > : does not appear in his Microsoft Word list of fonts on the pull-down
> > list.
> > :
> > : I e-mailed him a Courier font from this computer which we tried to
> > install,
> > : but the Install Font dialogue wouldn't let him install it. He got a
> > message
> > : telling him that he has to remove the font before reinstalling it. He
> > : Checked in Windows\Fonts, but found no standard Courier font. He did
> > find 4
> > : Courier New items, though I don't know why 4 are listed.
> > :
> > : How can we get the standard Courier font to install and be available
to
> > him
> > : in Word?
> > : --
> > : With kindest regards,
> > :
> > : Dick Smith
> > :
> > :
> >
> >
>
>
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