Thanks for your input. However I think your solution may not be
applicable in my case. I am printing text from both fields and text
members, but I don't use the inherent text formatting from the field.
I use the Printomatic commands setTextFont, setTextStyle, and some
others, to format the text just before outputting it to printer.
And it does look as expected in the print preview, but not in the actual print!
So it seems something get screwed up in the communication with the printer.
I do have the text in a cast that is not cast nr 1, but it is internal.
I have an unpleasant feeling that my only hope is to pray that it
works better on the PC (which is the target platform). I have try it
as soon as I can lay my hands on a Director 8 for PC. Gotta be one
somewhere in the building...
-Andreas
>are you appending your doc with text from fields? the field HAS to be in an
>internal cast.....or the fonts get screwed up. the result is to
>copyToClipBoard and pasteClipBoardInto a spot in an internal cast, and then
>append your print-o-matic doc....hope this helps
>
>
>
>At 02:38 PM 10/26/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>>Using printomatic:
>>
>>I'm on Mac Powerbook 500, MacOs 9.0.4, Director 8, PoM 1.6.2
>>(unregistered until I get it to work). OS printer driver version:
>>Laserwriter 8, S1-8.7
>>
>>
>>I use appendFile to put a background image into the frame.
>>I then use several constructs of drawText to add text on top of the
>>image (and I do all the setText commands provided, to ensure the
>>integrity of the text styling.)
>>
>>*When using printPreview(doc) everything looks like expected.*
>>
>>When actually printing, however, all fonts are substituted with
>>Helvetica. It does not matter if the fonts are imported font members
>>in Director or installed in the OS, using Adobe ATM.
>>
>>I use
>>
>>loadPageSetup(doc...
>>if doPageSetup(doc) then
>> savePageSetup(doc...
>>end if
>>
>>In the resulting 'Page setup' dialog I set everything to 'Download
>>typefaces', 'Don't replace typefaces' and so on... Setting 'mirror
>>image' and 'page size' in this dialog works correctly.
>>
>>I have tried 3 different printers from HP and Apple rendering the
>>same result. In case of the Apple printer I found one more 'download
>>fonts if needed' setting, which I checked.
>>
>>I have printed the fonts successfylly from other applications,
>>including MS Word.
>>
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>
>>-Andreas
>>
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