WPD Files for QMS PostScript Printers This disk contains WPD files for most QMS PostScript printers. These files will allow you to add a particular QMS printer to the list of supported printers in any Windows PostScript driver based on the original Microsoft driver which supported the addition of printers through WPD files. The following drivers provide this support: Microsoft V3.3 Microsoft V3.4 Microsoft V3.5 Aldus V3.4a QMS V1.0 QMS V1.1 QMS V1.2 QMS V1.3 QMS V1.4 QMS V2.1 NOTE: The QMS PostScript driver for Windows 3.x already supports all QMS printers. Unless you have a particular reason for keeping your current driver and adding printers, it is probably better to just use the QMS driver. To add printers using WPD files follow these steps: 1) In Windows, at the Program Manager dialog box, double click on the Control Panel icon. 2) In the Control Panel dialog box, double click on the Printers icon. 3) Click on your PostScript driver entry in the Installed Printers list and then click on Configure (for Windows 3.1 click on Setup and proceed to Step #5). 4) In the Configure dialog box, click on Setup. 5) In the Setup dialog box, click on Add Printer. 6) You will be prompted to insert a disk into drive A. If you are using drive A, insert the disk containing the WPD files into that drive. If you are using another drive, type in the appropriate drive name and insert the disk there. Add the path name "\WPDS\QMS". (ex. b:\wpds\qms). Click on OK. 7) Click on the desired QMS printer and Click on Add to install the printer. You may add up to 5 external printers to most drivers. See the Removing External Printers section of this document if you need to remove a printer to make room for others. If you selected the QMS-PS 410, QMS-PS 815, QMS-PS 825, or QMS-PS 2000 printer see the Installing Adobe Garamond Softfonts section of this document to insure that all printer resident typefaces will be supported by your driver. 8) Click on Done. 9) Select the QMS printer you just added in the Printer list and set the desired paper source and size. QMS printers added with WPD files have "<<<" appended to the printer name. 10) Click on OK through all subsequent screens to exit. Close the Control Panel dialog box and exit Windows to insure that your changes take effect. The QMS printer has been added to the list of printers supported by your driver as an external printer. Installing Adobe Garamond Softfonts ----------------------------------- Excluding the QMS V1.0 driver, most PostScript drivers for Windows 3.x do not provide support for the Adobe Garamond typeface family found in QMS-PS 410, QMS-PS 815, QMS-PS 825, and QMS-PS 2000 printers. If you add one of these printers to your driver as an external printer, you will have to provide the driver and Windows some information about these fonts. A printer font metrics file (PFM file) is included in the \WPDS\QMS\PFM subdirectory of this disk for each of the 6 Adobe Garamond fonts. Windows must have access to these files to print using Adobe Garamond. Follow these steps to install the Adobe Garamond PFM files: 1) Copy all six PFM files to your windows directory COPY A:\WPDS\QMS\PFM\*.PFM C:\WINDOWS 2) Make a backup copy of the WIN.INI file in your windows directory. Edit the WIN.INI file with an ASCII text editor. 3) Search for the [fonts] entry containing a list of printer fonts with the following format. [fonts] fontname=PFM file name fontname=PFM file name fontname=PFM file name fontname=PFM file name 4) Add the following entries for the Adobe Garamond family. [fonts] AGaramond-Regular=GDRG____ AGaramond-Italic=GDI_____ AGaramond-Semibold=GDSB____ AGaramond-SemiboldItalic=GDSBI___ AGaramond-Bold=GDB_____ AGaramond-BoldItalic=GDBI____ 3) Update each PostScript printer entry in the WIN.INI with references to the Adobe Garamond fonts. These entries have the following format. [PostScript,xxxx] xxxx can be LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, FILE, etc. 4) In each PostScript printer entry, add the following softfont entries. [PostScript,LPT1] softfonts=6 softfont1=C:\WINDOWS\GDRG____.PFM softfont2=C:\WINDOWS\GDI_____.PFM softfont3=C:\WINDOWS\GDSB____.PFM softfont4=C:\WINDOWS\GDSBI___.PFM softfont5=C:\WINDOWS\GDB_____.PFM softfont6=C:\WINDOWS\GDBI____.PFM The "softfont?=??????" entries must be numbered in consecutive order and the "softfonts=?" value must be equal to the number of "softfont?=?????" entries. EXAMPLE: The following example shows a typical printer entry before and after adding the new softfont entries. BEFORE: [PostScript,LPT1] softfonts=2 softfont1=C:\WINDOWS\HVB_____.PFM softfont2=C:\WINDOWS\HVO_____.PFM AFTER: [PostScript,LPT1] softfonts=8 softfont1=C:\WINDOWS\HVB_____.PFM softfont2=C:\WINDOWS\HVO_____.PFM softfont3=C:\WINDOWS\GDRG____.PFM softfont4=C:\WINDOWS\GDI_____.PFM softfont5=C:\WINDOWS\GDSB____.PFM softfont6=C:\WINDOWS\GDSBI___.PFM softfont7=C:\WINDOWS\GDB_____.PFM softfont8=C:\WINDOWS\GDBI____.PFM Removing External Printers ----------------------------------- Most Windows 3.x PostScript drivers only allow you to add up to 5 external printers with WPD files. If you have already added 5 external printers and need to install a different printer, you must remove a previously installed external printer. Follow these steps to remove an external printer: 1) Make a backup copy of the WIN.INI file in your windows directory. Edit the WIN.INI file with an ASCII text editor. 2) Search for a [PSCRIPT] entry containing a list of external printers with the following format. [PSCRIPT] External Printers=5 printer1=qps2000 printer2=qps2220 printer3=qps825 printer4=qps410 printer5=qps820 3) Remove individual printers by deleting "printer?=??????" lines. Renumber the "printer?=??????" entries so that they are consecutive. 4) Change the number of printers indicated in the "External Printers=?" entry. The value in this entry must equal the number of "printer?=?????" entries. EXAMPLE: Removing the qps825 printer entry. BEFORE: [PSCRIPT] External Printers=5 printer1=qps2000 printer2=qps2220 printer3=qps825 printer4=qps410 printer5=qps820 AFTER: [PSCRIPT] External Printers=4 printer1=qps2000 printer2=qps2220 printer3=qps410 printer4=qps820 Technical Support ----------------------------------- If you encounter a problem while installing or using the QMS WPD files or the QMS PostScript driver for Windows 3.x, please call QMS Customer Technical Support tel. (31) 3465 51333.