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PUB: Word Wrap Changes Printing to PostScript Printer or File

Article ID: 161453

Article Last Modified on 8/17/2005

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SYMPTOMS

If you print your publication to a PostScript printer, a PostScript print file, or an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file, text may wrap in different places than if you print the same publication to a non- PostScript printer.

This effect is more noticeable if you have a large amount of small text, and the text font is Arial or Times New Roman.

CAUSE

This is not caused by a problem in Publisher. It is caused by a printer setting in the Windows 95 and Windows 3.x PostScript printer drivers.

To speed up printing and to reduce printer memory usage, Windows substitutes some printer resident fonts for some TrueType fonts. For example, when you print a document or publication that uses the Arial font, Windows substitutes Helvetica. Similarly, if your document or publication contains Times New Roman, that text actually prints in Times to a PostScript printer or PostScript file.

Arial and Times New Roman are very similar to Helvetica and Times, but are not exactly the same.

RESOLUTION

You can configure the Windows PostScript printer driver so that it does not substitute fonts.

Windows 95

  1. Open the Printers folder.
  2. With your right mouse button, click to choose a PostScript driver. Click Properties on the menu that appears.
  3. Click the Fonts tab.
  4. Click the Always Use TrueType button.
  5. Click OK.

Windows NT Workstation, Version 4.0

NOTE: To follow these procedures, you must have administrative rights to the printer driver.
  1. Open the Printers folder.
  2. With your right mouse button, click the PostScript driver you wish to print to. Click Properties on the menu that appears.
  3. Click the Device Settings tab.
  4. Click the Font Substitution icon.
  5. In the Change 'Font Substitution' Setting area, click the Slow But More Accurate button. Click OK.

Windows 3.1x

  1. Start Control Panel.
  2. Double-click the Printers icon.
  3. On the list of installed printers, click to select a PostScript driver. Click Setup.
  4. Click Options.
  5. Click Advanced.
  6. Click to deselect the Use Font Substitution Table check box.
  7. Click OK until you return to the Printers dialog box. Click Close.

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