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5  Windows 2000 Compatibility

(First available in 4.2B:) Windows 2000 is incompatible with several features in versions before 4.2B of TRUETEX Setup and the previewer. This is due to Windows 2000 reporting a peculiar version that breaks Microsoft's GetVersion() parsing. Setup 4.2A and earlier will not install fonts into the Windows 2000 registry, although the font files will be installed; this does not affect a prior installation of TRUETEX on a Windows 95/98/NT system subsequently updated to Windows 2000. Windows 2000 affects various features in the previewer 4.2A and earlier, including: encoding map for font (displays only first 256 characters), no UNICODE rendering (uses 8-bit rendering), default font list is taken from WIN.INI, PostScript printers not detected by the '134special handler, and font metric exports will only use the first 256 character codes.

A very effective work-around corrects this problem in older versions of the previewer: the apcompat.exe tool on the Microsoft Windows 2000 CD in the Support\Tools directory. You can run this program directly from the CD, or you can install it on your system by running setup.exe in the Support\Tools directory of the CD. After launching this application, use the Browse button to select the previewer executable file (typically c:\TrueTeX\TrueTeX\DVIGDI32.EXE), select the operating system ``Windows NT 4 SP3'' (any service pack version will work), and select the check box ``Make the above check box settings permanent.''

(First available in 4.4D:) Release 4.4D corrects a problem on Windows 2000 when Eastern Europe encoding support is installed. Installing that support causes Windows to enumerate a variety of non-ANSI-encoded fonts for a single font, which the previewer previously did not distinguish as non-ANSI. On certain documents using non-TEX fonts (such as in the times package) this would cause incorrect or missing-glyph characters to be displayed. Release 4.4D and later take care to only accept ANSI and symbol encoded fonts into the previewer's run-time font dictionary.

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