rona@hpdml93.HP.COM (Ron Abramson) (02/11/89)
I bought Publishing Partner from a friend who was parting out his system. Now I'm trying to do some work and seem to be running into some bugs. Specifically, I created a 2" x 2" text column with several text sizes. Then I enclosed it with a rounded corner box. It looked great except that when I printed it out (on my DeskJet) I got a vertical line from overlapping the text about 3/4 of the width from the left. I started over and found that if I printed the text before adding the frame I was fine. I created a new frame and the line came back. I'm having no problem with the square cornered frames. The other irritating problem is the occasional lock-up. I'm beginning to wonder if I should try Fleet Street, or Timeworks. It sounds like PageStream is worse than PP for bugs. What should I do? Informed reviews are probably worth posting. ron abramson P.S. My employer thinks that I doing what he pays me for. I doubt that he cares about my opinion in these matters.
rona@hpdml93.HP.COM (Ron Abramson) (02/16/89)
Rana Dutt sent e-mail to me asking questions about the DeskJet. My mail bounced and I thought that the answer may be of general interest anyway. You don't refill toner on DeskJets, you replace the print cartridge. A cartridge costs ~$20 and is good for 1 million draft or 0.5 million letter quality characters. This translates to about 800 or 400 pages. In draft mode, this works out to 2.5 cents a page. The DeskJet uses standard paper. Photo-copier paper works especially well. All in all, the DeskJet is pretty nice if your wallet is too thin to get the HP LaserJet. Also, since most LaserJet drivers work for the DeskJet, drivers are fairly available. I've been using WordUp, 1st Word, Degas Elite and Publishing Partner pretty successfully. One problem I have had with the DeskJet is that graphics imbedded in WordUp documents aren't getting printed. I am using TurboJet for my driver. I have heard that DeskJets are unable to rotate graphics due to memory constraints. Could this be the problem? Is anyone else using WordUp/TurboJet/DeskJet? rona%hpdml93@hplabs.hp.com P.S. The opinions above are my own.
mike@ncrcpx.UUCP (Mike Reiss) (02/17/89)
In article <480020@hpdml93.HP.COM> rona@hpdml93.HP.COM (Ron Abramson) writes: >Rana Dutt sent e-mail to me asking questions about the DeskJet. My mail >well. > >All in all, the DeskJet is pretty nice if your wallet is too thin to get >the HP LaserJet. Also, since most LaserJet drivers work for the >DeskJet, drivers are fairly available. I've been using WordUp, 1st >Word, Degas Elite and Publishing Partner pretty successfully. > >rona%hpdml93@hplabs.hp.com > I tried to send mail to this individual, but it bounced. So I will put this message out here. I have an ST and have access to an HP LaserJet printer. I also have progras like Publishing Partner, 1st Word, Word Writer ST, Degas, Degas Elite and some others. I'm looking for drivers that will let me use the LaserJet with these programs. I have asked here before and gotten no response. Could someone send me any of these drivers? PPPLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEE !!!!!!! thanks, mike
coffey@ucselx.uucp (pat coffey) (02/22/89)
In article <1821766@ncrcpx.UUCP> mike@ncrcpx.Cambridge.NCR.COM (Mike Reiss) writes: > Could someone send me any of these drivers? >PPPLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEE !!!!!!! > The Publishing Partner drivers are available on Genie (hpd and hpf I believe) and so is a first word driver. I've updated the first word driver to correctly switch from draft to letter quality, and have created another one that accesses the Helvitica ascii cartridge. If there is sufficient interest, I will post them. BTW, First Word really rips when printing out Helvitica using the cartridge. _ _ Ms. Pat Coffey |_) (_ San Diego State University |