Adobe Font Causing Text To Split On HP LaserJ

DocumentID: 601103
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:28:36 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: A customer is using a converted Adobe font on an HP LaserJet III printer to print landscape. The landscape Adobe font is causing the text to be split between two printed pages. Solutions: When a landscape form is used, WP sends a rotation command. If the printer receives an orientation command, it forces the page to eject at the point where the code is received. This leaves part of the text on one page and the rest on the next page. The amount of text that is printed depends on where the Adobe font code is encountered. Adobe installs their font information into the WordPerfect .ALL file. Adobe sets the orientation by adding a code in the Select Font string of the WP printer driver. The WP driver has been written to use the HP page rotation command which tells the printer at what rotation to print the font. When the 90 degree rotation command is followed by a landscape orientation command, the printer ejects the page. The solution is to remove Adobe's command. The steps to do this are as follows: 1. Retrieve the .ALL file and select the HP printer. 2. Cursor to Fonts and press Enter. 3. Cursor down to the Soft Font Library heading and press Enter on the first non-HP library. 4. Press Enter on the first font. 5. Cursor to Select Font and press Enter. 6. Delete [27]"&l"ASCII(ORIENTATION)"O". Then exit back to the font list. 7. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for all fonts. 8. Exit back to the Soft Font library list, and press Enter on the next non-HP Library. 9. Repeat steps 4-8 until all fonts have been modified. 10. Exit, save, and replace the .ALL file. Then, update the .PRS file in WP (Shift-F7, S, U). Adobe has been notified of the problem.

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