Corel DESIGNER Help | Print to a PostScript printer

Print to a PostScript printer

To select a PostScript Printer Description (PPD) file

To automatically increase fountain steps

To set color separations and font warning options

To disable the downloading of Type 1 fonts

PostScript is a page-description language that sends printing instructions to a PostScript device. All the elements in a print job (for example, curves and text) are represented by lines of PostScript code that the printing device uses to produce the document. For improved compatibility, you can choose a device-independent PostScript option. You can also select a PostScript Printer Description (PPD) file. A PostScript Printer Description file describes the capabilities and features of your PostScript printer and is available from your printer’s manufacturer.

You can automatically increase the fountain steps in a fountain fill to decrease banding. Increasing the number of steps used to render fountain fills produces smoother shading when printing.

A print job that contains too many fonts may not print properly, and a print job that contains too many spot colors increases file size. You can set the PostScript options to warn you when a print job contains more than a set number of fonts or spot colors.

By default, the printing device driver downloads Type 1 fonts to the printing device. You can disable the Download Type 1 Fonts option so that fonts are printed as graphics (either curves or bitmaps). This may be useful when the file contains many fonts that would take a long time to download or would fail to download because of their file size. Bitmap versions of TrueType fonts look better in small print and print faster than regular fonts. You can choose the maximum number of bitmap fonts that a print job can contain.

Type 1 fonts are considered outdated in the font industry and have been replaced by TrueType and OpenType formats. It is anticipated that most operating systems will transition to the newer font technologies, thereby phasing out the Type 1 format. To avoid potential text issues in your documents, it is recommended to replace Type 1 fonts with TrueType (TTF) or OpenType (OTF) fonts. For more information, see Reference: Type 1 fonts and Substitute fonts.

To select a PostScript Printer Description (PPD) file

1 Click File

Print.

2 Click the General tab.

3 In the Destination area, choose a PostScript printer from the Printer list box.

4 Enable the Use PPD check box.

5 Choose the folder where the file is stored.

6 Double-click the filename.

To print to a PostScript device

1 Click File

Print.

2 Click the General tab.

3 In the Destination area, choose a PostScript printer from the Printer list box.

4 Click the PostScript tab.

5 From the list box in the Compatibility area, choose the PostScript level that corresponds to the printer.

If you want to compress bitmaps when printing, choose an option from the Compression type list box in the Bitmaps area. If you choose JPEG compression, you can move the JPEG quality slider to adjust the compression.

Bitmap compression settings can be saved in PostScript Interpreted (PS or PRN) files when you print to a file using a PostScript driver. For information about printing to a file, see To print to a file.

To test fountain fills for banding

1 Click File

Print.

2 Click the Preflight tab.

If there are no print job issues, the tab name displays as No issues. If there are issues, the tab name displays the number of issues that were found.

3 Click Settings.

4 Double-click Printing.

5 Enable the Banded fountain fills check box.

If you want to optimize fountain fills to reduce complexity, enable the Optimize fountain fills check box on the PostScript tab.

Testing fountain fills for banding applies only to linear fountain fills.

To automatically increase fountain steps

1 Click File

Print.

2 Click the PostScript tab.

3 Enable the Auto increase fountain steps check box.

To set color separations and font warning options

1 Click Tools

Options

Global.

2 In the left pane of the dialog box that appears, click Printing.

3 Click the Print Style tab.

4 From the Spot color separations warning list box, choose one of the following options:

• If any spot colors are used

• If more than 1 spot color used

• If more than 2 spot colors used

• If more than 3 spot colors used

5 From the Many fonts (Preflight) list box, choose a number.

To disable the downloading of Type 1 fonts

1 Click File

Print.

2 Click the PostScript tab.

3 Disable the Download Type1 fonts check box.

Type 1 fonts can be downloaded only for PostScript devices.

When the Download Type1 fonts check box is enabled, the Convert TrueType to Type1 check box is enabled by default. This ensures that TrueType fonts are converted to Type 1 fonts so that they can be downloaded. Disable the Convert TrueType to Type1 check box only if the output device has difficulty interpreting Type 1 fonts.