gross@umiami.miami.edu (03/05/90)
Okay, see if any of you Mac wizards can figure this out...I think I
know the answer...but I ain't sure...
We have two Mac Labs on campus...one with ImageWriter IIs and one with
LaserWriters IINTs. The problem seems to be whenever someone uses the
MS Word 4.0 in the IW lab and then comes to the LW lab, their
document becomes reformatted. The degree of reformation varies
from simple margin problems to tonight where someone and two extra
hard returns for each line.
Now, I know the Mac will reformat (or is it just Word?) a doc according
to which printer is currently selected, but is there a way to stop
it from doing that? Or is there an easy to correct the problem?
Thanks!
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Jason Gross Comp Sci Ugrad University of Miami Class of '91 (?)
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The University of Miami has a lovely fountain. gilbertd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) (03/07/90)
Tell imagewriter/laserwriter users to always select the "Tall Adjusted" option in Page Setup for the imagewriter. This makes the imagewriter pagesize equivalent to laserwriter, and no reformatting occurs. It should be the default option, but isn't (probably because imagewriters came before lwriters). If you get mypagesetup utility, that has an option to make Tall Adjusted the default choice for all new documents. mypagesetup is available at info-mac archive (sumex-aim.stanford.edu), directory /info-mac/util -- Don Don Gilbert biocomputing office / archive for gilbertd@iubio.bio.indiana.edu / molecular & general biology biology dept., indiana univ., / ftp iubio.bio.indiana.edu bloomington, in 47405, usa / (129.79.1.101) user anonymous
hal@krishna.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) (03/08/90)
One more thing to do that I haven't seen mentioned here yet: Make sure that you're using Adobe's version of the LaserWriter screen fonts, not the ones that Apple supplies with the system software. The Adobe screen fonts are a much better match for the ones in the LaserWriter. Hal Perkins hal@cs.cornell.edu Cornell CS
casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) (03/10/90)
In article <38080@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> gilbertd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) writes: > Tell imagewriter/laserwriter users to always select the "Tall Adjusted" > option in Page Setup for the imagewriter. This makes the imagewriter > pagesize equivalent to laserwriter, and no reformatting occurs. It > should be the default option, but isn't (probably because imagewriters > came before lwriters). This is NOT a reliable way to prevent refomatting of documents when you shift them from one system (with a LaserWriter) to another (with an ImageWriter). It may work sometimes, but you will get bitten sooner or later. There is only one reliable way to prevent reformatting, and that is to avoid changing printers. When an application formats a document (i.e. when it determines line breaks and page breaks) it does so _for a particular type of printer_. If the printer type changes, the formatting changes to match. This is true of all the applications I know about. If you have a document whose format you care about, you should make up your mind what kind of printer it will be printed on. Then if you have to move it to another system, you should make sure that the same type of printer software (the LaserWriter or ImageWriter II file in the System folder) is available on the new system. Before you open your document, use the Chooser to select the same printer type -- it doesn't matter if the hardware isn't there, as long as you aren't really going to print. When you want to print, go back to a system that has the right kind of printer. The above is certainly not a satisfactory solution, but it will have to do until Apple and/or the application developers provide a better one. David Casseres Exclaimer: Hey!