[Leaplist] Adobe PS Windows <-> CUPS broken under XP SP3

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 10/15/08, Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> Under Windows XP SP3 I can no longer print to a network
> printer using the Adobe PostScript Windows driver.  If
> anyone else was doing that, I'd thought I'd warn you.
> Worked fine under SP2.

There are many reports of the Adobe Postscript engine having
issues in countless Adobe products once Windows XP SP3 is
installed, or after select (possibly optional?) XP SP2
Hotfixes.

Here's a related KB Article (952909) with yet another Hotfix:  
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952909  

I don't know if that will address your issue, but it replaces
the Adobe Type Manager (ATM) Font DLL with one from May of this
year.  If that's broke, it will definitely prevent any
rendering from working.

See if that works, although it may not.

BTW, it seems Adobe is no longer updating the Postscript
driver.  It seems Adobe is marketing/selling it's trifecta
hardware, firmware and software Raster Image Processing
(RIP) for Postscript.  In other words, they are often
either bundling a software RIP with their products, or they
are getting independent hardware and software vendors (IHV/
ISVs) to license and bundle either the hardware, firmware
or software (often the last) wither their products.

-- Bryan

P.S.  <meta-comment>that whole integration/regression
mitigation tangent I started instantly comes back to mind
on SP3<meta-comment>


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