mcgurrin@MITRE.ARPA (01/03/89)
I received AppleworksGS for Christmas, and I'm generally happy with it so far, although I've had 2 crashes, one when the "Frantic" freeware NDA was accidentally activated, and one other that if it repeats itself I will document. A question I had concerns printing (actually I have 2 questions). First, why does underlined text come out printed twice when printing a spreadsheed in draft mode (on the same line). This appears to be a bug. Ideally it would be nice if underlining was supported, but at least it should just print out as normal text. Second, the print dialog box lists 3 options, draft, better color, and better text. From experience, it seems as though better color is really better graphics, since I could not print a page layout application with better text as the selected option, whereas better color worked fine (I did not have the color box in the lower left checked, since I was printing in black and white). Is my assumption on the print options correct? Any other bug reports, quirks, nifty feature news, etc. appreciated. Thanks!
scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) (01/04/89)
From article <8901031338.AA15074@mitre.arpa>, by mcgurrin@MITRE.ARPA: > I had concerns printing (actually I have 2 questions). First, why does > underlined text come out printed twice when printing a spreadsheed in draft > mode (on the same line). This appears to be a bug. Ideally it would be nice > if underlining was supported, but at least it should just print out as normal > text. I'm not aware of this problem. I tried creating a spreadsheet, underlining text, underlining numbers... then printing it in draft mode, and nothing came out twice. Is it possible you're using titles? > Second, the print dialog box lists 3 options, draft, better color, and > better text. From experience, it seems as though better color is really better > graphics, since I could not print a page layout application with better text > as the selected option, whereas better color worked fine (I did not have the > color box in the lower left checked, since I was printing in black and white). > Is my assumption on the print options correct? You should have been able to print from PL in better text. What happened when you couldn't? (Crash? Nothing? Garbage?) Your assumptions are basically correct. Here's what the ImageWriter driver does: In better text, it generates a double sized pict, then scales it down when printing. This forces the use of double-sized fonts for better text resolution. However, the colors and graphics also get scaled, so there is a loss of resolution in the color. Better graphics sends the bitmap you see on the screen to the printer. -- Scott Lindsey, wombat | UUCP: {ames,apple,portal,sun,voder}!claris!scott Product Development | Internet: scott@claris.com | AppleLink: LINDSEY1 Claris Corp. | Disclaimer: These are not the opinions of Claris, (415) 960-4070 | Apple, the author, or anyone else living or dead.
gillam@hpfclm.HP.COM (Larry Gillam) (01/06/89)
I received AppleworksGS for Christmas, and I'm generally happy with it so far, although I've had 2 crashes, one when the "Frantic" freeware NDA was accidentally activated, and one other that if it repeats itself I will document. A question I had concerns printing (actually I have 2 questions). First, why does underlined text come out printed twice when printing a spreadsheed in draft mode (on the same line). This appears to be a bug. Ideally it would be nice if underlining was supported, but at least it should just print out as normal text. I to, was having problems with the draft mode. Mine were with the the word processing module. I became VERY frustrated and finally got through to Claris(wasn't easy!) Their tech. rep. told me that that there is a KNOWN bug when using the draft mode. My problems arose when I tried to print more than one page and using different fonts. I was told, by Claris, not to use the draft mode. The problem had to do with some driver supplied by Apple(?). Claris was working with Apple to resolve the problem. When, I don't know. I have stopped using the draft mode and have had no problems. Although, it's painful waiting for the "optimized"(?) driver to finish. I'd hate to see how long it would take to not use the "optimized" driver! Another observation....I'm running out of RAM DISK and after an afternoon of changing from module to module, I found that I wasn't able to successfully load a previously generated text file(1.5 pages). When opened, I got the "busy" icon and it never went away. After 5 min. I did a apple-control-reset and came back into the WP module. Re-opened it and it loaded just fine. Hmmm.....I went into the Control panel and looked at free RAM and it said 1.46MB. Looked OK, but I suspected I had run out of system RAM, so I did some playing around and discovered that as I opened and closed windows the RAM free was decreasing....never increasing. It appeared that the RAM was not being released when a module session was closed! The ONLY way I was able to free the RAM was to go the FILE menu and "Quit". When the package was re-started the RAM was then available. I don't think I should have to go the trouble of "quiting" to be able to free enough RAM to load a document! I certainly hope this is fixed in later releases. Larry