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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:36:26 CST
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From:         David Robinson <robinson@KNUTH.MTSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Zapf Dingbats
              92 5:44 pm

>Dear David,
>
>Have tried all of your ideas before I posted. The CHARMAP.TST is blank when
>Character map 12 is printed, and compose results in blanks on the screen and
>in view document.
>
>Since  you have found it possible to print them, I will try to look for a
>newer driver.
>Thanks,
>Carol

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to this...

The driver we use here is:
IB40LAPO.PRS   50,343  10-07-92  1:15p

This is a newer driver that I downloaded from the WP BBS, because we
needed to enable the auxiliary paper tray. The old version which came
from the  WPPS1.ALL  (142,488  07-17-92 12:00n) worked just fine on
character set 12, however.

You might want to be sure that you have the correct printer driver
selected.  The driver for the postscript option is different from the
normal 4019 driver... if you didn't give the new printer selection a
unique name you may have loaded the wrong driver by mistake... we've
done that here :-)  Check for the presence of IB40LAPO.PRS, and make
sure that is the driver that's being loaded when you select the 4019
with PostScript as your WordPerfect printer.

Also, make sure you have the PostScript option enabled on the printer.
To change from regular 4019 print to PostScript print, turn off the
printer, insert the removable font card *firmly* into the slot, and
hold down both the PAPER and FONT buttons while turning the printer
back on.  You should get the automatic banner page that says PostScript
Option for the IBM Laser Printer. Adobe PostScript Interpreter Version
52.1.  Check to make sure that removable font card is seated firmly
in the slot.  The fancy fonts (of which the dingbats is one...) won't
work if the font card isn't seated completely.  That banner page should
indicate which font card typefaces are installed.

Do the other PostScript fonts work correctly?  For instance, can you
select the Zapf Chancery Medium Italic font and have your document
print correctly with that font?  If so, then you've apparently done
all the above and the problem lies elsewhere.

I just retrieved the CHARMAP.TST file, blocked character set 12, and
printed it.  It works fine.  BTW, You *DON'T* see these characters
displayed on screen, all you see on screen is a little solid square
block that represents the character.  If you place the cursor over that
block in 'reveal codes' mode, it'll show you what compose character is
represented by the block.  They also don't display when using View
Document... unfortunately,  but they *DO* print out.

I hope this is some help...

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