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Frodo
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Post by Frodo »

His first post said ties. One of the things that bugs me about DP is the lack of slurs.

But now the beams are missing from the PDF? Clearly, some font data is not being exported from DP. That info would have been embedded in the PDF.

He should reinstall DP. If that doesn't work, MOTU needs to be involved.

I wonder if a third-party disc utility might not kickstart this into working?
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Post by jstaczek »

Mario, even if you save from Quickscribe to PDF, it still uses your printer driver. All the save to PDF does is capture the image that would have gone to the printer. So if the printer driver has an issue, so will the PDF if that driver is selected.

Try this: using the Add Printer utility, add an IP printer, address of 127.0.0.1. For the driver (Print Using:) select Generic PostScript printer. Print from DP to that using either Preview or Save As PDF. I just tried it and it prints perfectly from DP.

That should be able to get you a PDF that works. You might even be able to print that PDF to your Lexmark printer at that point!
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Post by Frodo »

Jason's the Man!! :)
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Post by pistoni »

Nice Jstaczek, he suggested me: "using the Add Printer utility, add an IP printer, address of
127.0.0.1. For the driver (Print Using:) select Generic PostScript
printer. Print from DP to that using either Preview or Save As PDF. I
just tried it and it prints perfectly from DP.
And it worked!!
Thx again.
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Post by Frodo »

pistoni wrote:Nice Jstaczek, he suggested me: "using the Add Printer utility, add an IP printer, address of
127.0.0.1. For the driver (Print Using:) select Generic PostScript
printer. Print from DP to that using either Preview or Save As PDF. I
just tried it and it prints perfectly from DP.
And it worked!!
Thx again.
Vincitor!! Vincitor!!

Bravo, Pistoni!!
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