ReadMe File for AdobePS 4.

2 for Windows 95 / Windows 98

This document contains installation information and software release notes for version 4.2 of the
Adobe PostScript Printer Driver (AdobePS 4.2) for use with the Windows operating
system. AdobePS 4.2 provides several features not found in the standard Windows PostScript
driver, such as Watermark printing and greater support for many popular applications.

The following topics are covered in this ReadMe file:

- AdobePS 4.2 Printer Driver components

- System Requirements
- Installation
- Using Online Help
- Troubleshooting
- Driver usage notes
- Application software compatibility issues
- Printer compatibility issues

AdobePS 4.2 Components

Driver Folder
This folder contains all of the files needed to load, configure, and operate AdobePS 4.2
including its online help files and this ReadMe file.

PPD Folder
The PPD Folder may contain one or more PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files. AdobePS uses a
PPD file to determine the available features for each printer. PPD files contain information on each
printer's available features (e.g., paper size, ROM-resident fonts, memory). The PPD folder
contains PPD files for a large variety of Adobe PostScript printers, imagesetters and film
recorders. Printer manufacturers develop and distribute PPD files for their printers and usually
include the appropriate PPD file on a disk with the printer. If your printer did not come with a PPD
file, contact your printer manufacturer for one. Adobe also distributes some PPD files as a
courtesy to printer manufacturers. If your copy of AdobePS did not include the PPD file you need
in the PPD Folder, you can also check Adobe's World Wide Web site (http://www.adobe.com).

System Requirements

AdobePS 4.2 requires the following hardware and software:

- A CD-ROM drive or floppy disk drive

- A hard disk
- 4 MB or more of memory
- Microsoft Windows 95 / Microsoft Windows 98
- An Adobe PostScript language printer or other Adobe PostScript language imaging device

AdobePS 4.2 Installation

This section briefly describes how to install the AdobePS 4.2 software. The Setup program
contains online help for further details. To use the online help, see "Online Help," later in this
file.

Installation Warning

If you are using the Microsoft Client for Netware Networks with Windows 98, you must first
disconnect any network drives before adding a new printer. If you do not, you may experience a
failure in a system program called MPREXE.EXE or your system may stop responding during the
installation after you have accepted the End-User License Agreement. This problem does not
occur when using the Novell Client for Netware or if no drives are currently connected to Novell
servers using the Microsoft Client. To disconnect a drive, right-click on that drive and choose
Disconnect.

Before installing the software, do the following:

1) Make sure that the Microsoft Windows operating system is installed on your computer.

2) If you do not have AdobePS 4.2 CD-ROM or floppy disks, download the Setup program from the
web to your hard disk and create a copy of the Setup program software on a disk.

3) Exit all applications.

Note: In some cases, the Setup program may ask you questions that are not described in the
following procedure. For more information, see "Troubleshooting,"" later in this file.

To install the Adobe Printer Driver program:

1 Insert the AdobePS 4.2 CD-ROM or floppy disk labeled "disk1" into the appropriate drive.
If installing from a copy of the Setup program in your hard disk, go to step 2.

2 In the Start menu, click Run, specify c:/setup in the Open box, and click OK. Change the
designation of the drive, if necessary.

3 Click Read to view the ReadMe file. Choose File -> Exit to exit the application after you have
read it, then click Next.

4 If you expect to install other printers later, copy the Setup program to the hard disk of your
computer system by clicking Yes, then Next.

5 Follow the instructions in the Setup dialog boxes. Click Help if you need more information.

6 Click Exit to complete the setup procedure.

Online Help

Online help for AdobePS 4.2 explains how to use the driver to perform various tasks. It also
contains detailed information on printing and printer settings and many troubleshooting tips and
techniques.

To display online help, click Help in any of the AdobePS 4.2 properties dialog boxes. To list
help topics, choose Contents in the Help window; click any topic title to display help for that
topic.

The "What's This?" feature also lets you view information on specific functions. To use this
feature, click the "?" button at the right end of the title bar of any dialog box. A question mark
pointer appears. Click any object in the dialog box with this pointer to display a short description
of the object. You can also display help on an object by right-clicking that object in the dialog
box.

Installation Troubleshooting

This section offers solutions to problems that you may encounter copying AdobePS 4.2
installation files to your hard disk.

For problems specifying a printer for your installation, refer to the troubleshooting topics in the
Setup online help. For problems using AdobePS 4.2, refer to the troubleshooting topics in the
AdobePS 4.2 online help.

A version of the Setup program files already exists on your system.

When the Setup program detects the same, an earlier, or a later version of the Setup files than
the version on the AdobePS 4.2 floppy disk or CD-ROM, the Existing Files On Local Disk
dialog box appears. If an earlier version of the Setup program already exists on your system,
overwrite it by clicking Next. If your version of the Setup files is the same or later than the
Setup version, keep your version by clicking Skip.

Setup cannot copy the driver files to the specified directory.

This problem occurs when you try to copy the Setup program to your disk or when you are
copying the driver files to your disk and the destination directory is read only. Consult with your
system administrator and have him or her either complete the entire installation for you, change
access privileges on that directory, or choose another location for the driver files.

Setup will not allow you to install older versions of the driver files.
When one or more of the driver software files on the AdobePS 4.2 CD-ROM or disk have
earlier dates than the driver files on your local disk, the Attempt To Install An Older Version
dialog box lists the driver files with later dates now on your local disk. For more information on
a file, select the name of the file and click Details. Installation can be continued but the
files on your local disk with later dates than the AdobePS 4.2 CD-ROM or disk will not be
overwritten. If you still wish to install the driver files from the AdobePS 4.2 CD-ROM or disk,
you must first delete from your local disk any driver files with later dates..

The versions of certain system files need to be updated.

The Setup program has checked the version numbers, dates, and sizes of the system files and
found that certain files need to be updated. The Different Versions Detected dialog box lists the
files to be updated. To obtain more information on a file, select the name of the file and click
Details. Click OK when you have finished viewing the differences. Then click Next to copy the
newer files to your system.

Driver Usage Notes

Printer installation
Certain system characteristics, such as configuration, available memory, and the number of
currently open files, may limit the number of printers you can install during any one session. To
install more than 50 printers on your system, exit the setup utility after each set of 50 printers.

Data format setting

The AdobePS 4.2 default Data Format setting is ASCII data, which enables the file to print on
any printer. You can improve performance if you configure your printer to accept binary format
data transfers instead of ASCII. AdobePS 4.2 provides binary data formats appropriate for use
with serial or parallel port connected printers, and for printers connected via AppleTalk
or Ethernet.

For more information, see "Specifying Data Communication Protocol and Format" in the
AdobePS 4.2 online help.

Custom page settings

Some PostScript printers support user-definable page sizes, or "custom pages." Windows
limits the maximum custom-page length to 129 inches. If you specify a value greater than 129
inches, AdobePS 4.2 displays an error.

The Page Setup dialog box of some applications replaces the custom-paper names that you
specify with their own fixed names for custom paper. The selected custom-paper settings remain
valid, and the documents will print correctly.
Some applications, such as Microsoft WordPad, cannot distinguish between printers that are the
same model but that you have named differently. As a result, such applications display all
custom pages defined for all printers of the same model.

Type 1 font emboldening

Some applications provide an emboldening feature for PostScript outline fonts (Type 1) that do
not have a "native" bold face, such as Zapf Dingbats. The emboldening process is inexact and
may produce slight typographic imperfections. These imperfections may be a concern only for
very high-resolution devices, such as imagesetters, or if you require precise typographic fidelity.

Workaround: Choose a Type 1 font family that has a native bold face.

Printing TrueType fonts

Certain characters in some TrueType fonts may not print correctly. This problem is due to
imperfections in the fonts themselves.

Workaround: To eliminate TrueType character imperfections, choose another font.

Windows interface issues

Some Printer properties dialog boxes are part of the Windows operating system and are
shared with AdobePS 4.2. These property sheets, such as Sharing and Details, may contain
spelling or accelerator-key inconsistencies. Adobe anticipates that the next version of the
Windows operating system will correct these problems.

WPX Files in \WINDOWS directory

Whenever AdobePS 4.2 installs a printer, it creates a WPX file in the \\WINDOWS directory. A
WPX file is a condensed description of the printer's features. If you later delete an installed
printer, the associated WPX file is not removed. Unused WPX files create no problem on the
system other than the disk space they consume. The typical WPX file occupies approximately
12K bytes of disk space.

Specifying available printer memory

AdobePS 4.2 enables you to specify any value for the Available Printer Memory option in the
Device Options properties dialog box. Specifying a value outside the range of your printer may
result in very large files, decreased printing performance, or printing failure.

Normally, the default value AdobePS 4.2 supplies is adequate for most needs. To change this
value, make sure the value you set for this option falls within the available memory
specifications of your printer. You can get printer memory information by printing a test page
from the General properties dialog box.

Units conversion discrepancies

Setting the unprintable area and custom-page sizes in inches or millimeters generates numeric
values converted to points (a point is 1/72 of an inch), which AdobePS 4.2 uses for internal
calculations. In these calculations, AdobePS 4.2 rounds off the numeric value you provide to its
nearest point equivalent. Because of this, you may observe small discrepancies between the
specified numbers and the numbers that appear in the fields after you click OK in the
Unprintable Area dialog box.

Application Software Compatibility Issues

Support of driver features

Some applications do not support all AdobePS 4.2 features. Usually the application simply
ignores the feature, but in rare cases, a printing error may occur.

Application Driver Feature

Acrobat Exchange 2.0 N-up, Scaling, Rotated Landscape, Watermark, Mirror Image
Acrobat Exchange 3.0 Rotated Landscape, Mirror Image
AmiPro 3.1 Scaling
CorelDraw! 6.0 Scaling, Mirror Image
CorelDraw! 7.0 Scaling, Mirror Image, Negative Image
FrameMaker 4 Scaling
FrameMaker 5 Rotated Landscape
Freehand 5.0 Watermark
Freehand 7.0 N-up, Scaling, Rotated Landscape, Watermark, Mirror Image
Illustrator 4.0 Mirror Image
Illustrator 4.1 Rotated Landscape, Mirror Image
PageMaker N-up, Scaling, Rotated Landscape, Watermark, Mirror Image, Negative
Image
Photoshop 3.0, 4.0 Watermark
QuarkXPress 3.32 N-Up, Watermark, Mirror Image, Negative Image
WordPerfect 6.1, 7.0 Rotated Landscape

Workaround: Do not use these AdobePS 4.2 features when printing from the above
applications. Newer versions of these applications resolve many of these incompatibilities.

Adobe Acrobat
1) When generating EPS files from Acrobat, always be sure to set the Acrobat copy count to
one. Any other value may lead to unexpected results when you embed Acrobat EPS files within
other documents. 2) Printing from Acrobat 2.1 with the Send TrueType Fonts As value set to
Bitmaps sometimes results in a printing error.

Workaround: For the first condition, no workaround exists. For the second condition, set "Send
TrueType Fonts As" selection to Outlines instead.

Adobe Illustrator 4.1

If you insert an EPS file generated by printing through Adobe Acrobat 2.0 or 2.1 (Acrobat
Exchange or Acrobat Reader) into an Illustrator 4.1 document, and later add text to that
document, a printing error may result.

Workaround: None. A future version of Illustrator will correct this problem.

Adobe PageMaker 5.0

Windows metafiles printed from Adobe PageMaker 5.0 in landscape orientation are cut off on
the right side.

Workaround: Upgrade to the latest release of PageMaker.

Adobe PageMaker 6.0

When the "Send TrueType fonts as:" selection is set to Type42, underlined text may print without
the underline.

Workaround: Change the "Send TrueType fonts as:" selection to Outlines or Bitmaps.

Adobe Persuasion
Persuasion does not retain the n-up layout values selected in the Paper properties dialog box.

Workaround: Reselect the layout setting each time a document is printed.

Adobe Photoshop 3.04

If you select Binary as the data format selection within Photoshop 3.04, you must set a
compatible Data Format value within AdobePS 4.2.
Workaround: If your printer is connected over a pure binary channel, such as AppleTalk,
choose the Pure Binary Data option in the Data Format menu in the Advanced PostScript
Options dialog box. If your printer is connected via a serial or parallel connection, choose the
appropriate binary data format option for your printer, such as Tagged Binary Communications
Protocol or the Binary Communications Protocol.

AmiPro 3.1
1) When you select a block of justified text and apply the double-underline style to it, the
document does not print fully underlined. 2) The Number of Copies setting in AmiPro dialog
boxes overrides the Number of Copies option set in the driver.

Workaround: For the first condition, use single underlined text, not double-underlined, or try
double-underlining one line of text at a time. For the second condition, set the number of copies
using the AmiPro dialog boxes.

CorelDraw 4.0 and QuarkXPress

If you insert an EPS file created from QuarkXpress into a CorelDraw document, a PostScript
printing error occurs.

Workaround: None.

CorelDraw 7.0
Font CircleD, a Type 1 font supplied with CorelDraw 7.0, may cause a PostScript printing error.

Workaround: Use the TrueType version of CircleD that is supplied with CorelDraw 7.0.

Designer
1) Printing multiple master fonts from Designer causes PostScript errors. 2) Text in bold and italic
styles is printed plain if bold and italic fonts are not installed.

Workaround: For the first condition, do not use multiple master fonts with Designer. For the
second condition, install bold and italic versions of the desired font, if available.

FileMakerPro 2.0
FileMakerPro 2.0 documents with integrated graphics may print out incorrectly.

Workaround: Upgrade to FileMakerPro 2.1.

FrameMaker 5.0
1) Printing text with integrated graphics from the FrameMaker 5.0 application results in a
PostScript error. 2) Images on custom page sizes that have Width greater than height are clipped.

Workaround: For the first condition, upgrade to the latest version. For the second condition, there
is no workaround.

Lotus 1-2-3
Lotus 1-2-3 cannot always properly calculate the text placement of inverted, rotated text. Text
may be missing or incorrectly placed in a printout.

Workaround: None

Macromedia Freehand 5.0

You may have problems printing the Macromedia Freehand 5.0 sample documents using the
Adobe
Printer Driver. Freehand 5.0 expects the Windows driver name to be PSCRIPT.DRV, instead
of ADOBEPS4.DRV.
Workaround: None

Microsoft Excel 5.0

AdobePS 4.2 ignores print settings specified within Excel 5.0 when the document is printed.

Workaround: Specify the print settings from the Printers folder only.

Microsoft Word
1) If you change AdobePS 4.2 settings within the Microsoft Word Page Setup dialog box and
select an option that conflicts with your current configuration, AdobePS 4.2 cannot inform you
of the conflict. 2) Microsoft Word cannot print dotted borders in color to PostScript printers.

Workaround: For the first condition, change printer settings from the Print dialog box or from
the Printers folder. For the second condition, replace dotted borders with solid borders or dotted
black borders.

PowerPoint 7.0
PowerPoint 7.0 does not print watermarks in the background.

Workaround: Print watermarks in the foreground.

Printer Compatibility Issues

Printer PostScript Level

AdobePS version 4.2 only supports Level 2 or Level 3 PostScript devices; it does not support Level
1 devices.
If you have installed a previous version of AdobePS for a Level 1 device, installing version 4.2
replaces the previous version and it no longer prints on Level 1 devices.

Workaround: Adobe recommends that you delete any Level 1 printer icons from your Printers
folder and
re-install them using Microsoft's Add Printer Wizard.

ICM and ICC Profiles

AdobePS 4.2 fully supports Windows Image Color Matching (ICM). ICM can enhance the
output of color PostScript printers. ICM is enabled only if you have an ICC profile for your
printer installed. Adobe does not provide ICC profiles with this release of AdobePS. If you
have a color printer, you may wish to contact your printer vendor for available ICC profiles.

RGB-based ICC profiles do not now support Host Image Color Matching, although they do
support all other modes of color matching. Profiles that do not conform to Windows ICM
requirements may allow you to select any of the color matching options, but will have no effect
on the output.

Certain ICM-enabled applications may override settings you have selected in AdobePS 4.2.

Switching between PostScript and Other Printing Languages

A printing problem may occur if you have a printer that can switch between printing languages
and you have manually downloaded the PostScript header using the Send Header Now button in
the PostScript properties dialog box. In this case, the header may be lost and printing may result
in a PostScript error.

Workaround: For more information on language-switching capabilities, refer to your printer

documentation. You may also wish to retain the default driver settings so that AdobePS 4.2 will
download the PostScript header with each job.

Custom Page Settings

Certain printers with custom-paper support (roll-fed or cut-sheet) rotate the image 90 degrees if
the custom-defined paper size width is greater than the length. This printer feature may cause
unexpected printing results, especially if the Transverse feature is selected. For information on
custom-paper features specific to your printer, see your printer documentation.

Sending Error Handler to Printer With Low Memory

If your printer is low in memory, the error handler may not be able to print complete messages if
an error condition occurs.

Workaround: Either add more memory to your printer or disable the error handler by turning
off the Print PostScript Error Information option in the PostScript properties dialog box.

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Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. AdobePS, Adobe
Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Persuasion and Adobe
FrameMaker are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated or its subsidiaries. Windows 95 and
Windows 98 are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. AppleTalk is a registered
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