dan@uwmacc.UUCP (dan jatnieks) (07/17/86)
Has anyone tried to print the Boston II manual to an
ImageWriter II ?? Has anyone gotten it to *work* ?! I installed the
Boston II fonts into my Mac Plus/HD20 system and then tried to print
the documentation. It shows up on the screen alright, but when I
tried to print the ImageWriter II just made some very annoying and
loud noises and printed pure garbage. I then took it over to a
ImageWriter I and it worked fine. I had pretty much forgotton about
it until someone said they had the same problem. They were using a
Mac Plus and a ImageWriter II and got garbage when trying to print
the Boston II manual. What's the problem here? Could the Boston II
fonts be incompatible with the ImageWriter II? Why would that be?
Anyone have any ideas?
danj.
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----------gjb@unirot.UUCP (Greg Brail) (07/18/86)
In article <69@uwmacc.UUCP> dan@uwmacc.UUCP (dan jatnieks) writes: >[Boston II manual won't print on ImageWriter II] > >What's the problem here? Could the Boston II >fonts be incompatible with the ImageWriter II? Why would that be? > > Anyone have any ideas? > >danj. I didn't try to download the manual (I was too lazy, especially at 300 BPS) but I did download the fonts. They print just fine on my ImageWriter II. In fact, they look quite nice. -Greg -- Greg Brail (Greg @ The Soup Kitchen) UUCP : ..{ihnp4,seismo,harvard,sri-iu,lll-crg,ut-sally,allegra}!caip!unirot!gjb ARPA : unirot!gjb@caip.rutgers.edu USNAIL : Don't bother.
chuq@sun.UUCP (07/18/86)
> In article <69@uwmacc.UUCP> dan@uwmacc.UUCP (dan jatnieks) writes: > > >[Boston II manual won't print on ImageWriter II] > > > >What's the problem here? Could the Boston II > >fonts be incompatible with the ImageWriter II? Why would that be? I would guess that you are trying to print it with Microsoft Word. The Boston II manual is complex enough that it HAS to be printed with MacWrite with the MacWrite fonts, or it won't work. > > I didn't try to download the manual (I was too lazy, especially > at 300 BPS) but I did download the fonts. If you didn't read the manual, you are missing most of the features of Boston II. Your loss. That manual is also a great introduction to doing readable text -- well worth reading just to learn to to write stuff that looks good! chuq -- Chuq Von Rospach chuq%plaid@sun.COM CompuServe: 73317,635 {decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!sun!plaid!chuq O how they cling and wrangle, some who claim Of Brahamana and recluse the honoured name! For, quarrelling, each to his view they claim, Such folk see only one side of a thing. -- Buddha -- The Elephant and the Blind Men
tiedeman@ihu1g.UUCP (N. R Tiedemann) (07/22/86)
> > Has anyone tried to print the Boston II manual to an > ImageWriter II ?? Has anyone gotten it to *work* ?! I installed the > Boston II fonts into my Mac Plus/HD20 system and then tried to print I have the same set-up bought through the Univ. of Wis. student discount program just last April, (my wife is still a student there) namely, Mac+, HD20, ImageWriterII, and I have printed out the Boston II manual in both "best" and the medium grade mode. I had no problems with either of these. (My ImageWriter file is v2.1) We are still using the system and finder that were delivered with the Mac. Norm Tiedemann ihnp4!ihu1g!tiedeman (note one "n" here) AT&T Bell Labs (312) 979-3535