Microsoft KB Archive/42582

Adding Extended Character Support for PostScript Printer

PSS ID Number: Q42582 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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= SUMMARY =

To add Extended Character Set (ECS) support to a PostScript printer, do the following:


 * 1) Find the Adobe codename of the character in the Adobe reference book.
 * 2) Go to the “/foreignvec [” section of POSTSCRP.INI or POSTSCRL.INI (this is located towards the end of the .INI file).
 * 3) Find a number that isn’t currently being used. Enter the Adobe codename at this point: ### /codename (where ### is a decimal number between 128 and 255 that can be accessed inside Word by simultaneously pressing the ALT key and the number on the number pad.)
 * 4) Reset the printer by turning it off and then on again.

There are two other factors that can affect whether the extended character prints or not:


 * 1) The codename used must be available within the font that is being printed; not all codenames can be printed in every font style.
 * 2) Make sure that there is not a Character Translation Table (CTT) in the printer driver that remaps this character to another character.

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