Microsoft KB Archive/64317

PowerPoint UAE with Document Composed for Tektronix Phaser PSS ID Number: Q64317 Article last modified on 09-25-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

Tektronix distributes a driver for its Phaser PX color PostScript printer in the form of a Microsoft Windows version 3.00 Windows printer description (WPD) file.

If you save a Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows presentation composed for the Phaser PX, and you open it on another machine that doesn’t have the Phaser configuration, you will receive an Unrecoverable Application Error (UAE).

This problem is not caused by the Tektronix WPD. The problem resides in the Windows PostScript driver. Its support code for Windows PostScript description files cannot handle the case where the printer configuration has been removed. This failure will occur on any printer that uses the WPD technique to register itself as a Windows PostScript device.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.