Printers Not Supporting TrueType in Windows 3.1 (83118)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows 3.1
  • Microsoft Windows 3.11
This article was previously published under Q83118

SUMMARY

In Microsoft Windows version 3.1, all printer drivers support TrueType fonts except for the Generic/Text Only printer driver (TTY.DRV) and the plotter driver (HPPLOT.DRV).

MORE INFORMATION

Printer drivers support TrueType in one of two ways:
  • All dot-matrix printer drivers, the Hewlett-Packard (HP) DeskJet driver (HPDSKJET.DRV), the Canon LBP II and III drivers (LBP8II.DRV and CANONIII.DRV), and the Olivetti DM109/309 driver (DM309.DRV) support printing TrueType fonts as raster graphic data. The IBM 4019 driver (IBM4019.DRV, also known as the Lexmark 4019), the original HP LaserJet, LaserJet Plus, and LaserJet 500+ also support TrueType fonts in this way.
  • Other printer drivers support TrueType by downloading TrueType font information to the printer, the same way that other soft fonts are downloaded, and then requesting the font the same way other device- resident fonts are requested. This is the way that TrueType is supported for the HP LaserJet Series II (and later HP LaserJet models, including the HP LaserJet III family), and the PostScript driver (PSCRIPT.DRV).
Printer drivers written for Windows 3.0 by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) automatically support TrueType fonts if they support printing bitmap fonts (such as TmsRmn and Helv in Windows 3.0 and MS Serif and MS Sans Serif in Windows 3.1). If they don't, these drivers must be modified to support TrueType fonts.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:10/14/2003
Keywords:KB83118
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