[comp.sys.mac] Patching the ImageWriter page length variable

ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) (03/03/90)

  Tractor-fed paper ("Z-fold") is usually exactly 12" in length. 
  Does anyone know how to patch the LW driver so that one of the
  paper choices, say, the US Letter (unused in this case since
  mostly A4 is being used) would automagically give a form-feed
  length of 12 inches?

--Ian Feldman /  ianf@nada.kth.se || uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf  / "There, Watson!
             /  He's obviously not the ImageWriter hacker we thought he was."

bannon@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Ron Bannon) (03/04/90)

In article <3056@draken.nada.kth.se> ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes:
>
>  Tractor-fed paper ("Z-fold") is usually exactly 12" in length. 
>  Does anyone know how to patch the LW driver so that one of the
>  paper choices, say, the US Letter (unused in this case since
>  mostly A4 is being used) would automagically give a form-feed
>  length of 12 inches?

Widgets from CE Software will allow you to modify the IW driver. MockPackage
contains this utility as well as several useful DAs. If you or anyone is 
interested,

      MockPackage   MockWrite/Printer/Terminal/Chart           ver. 4.4
      ^^^^^^^^^^^   Aask, Control-1, EZ-Menu,FolderShare
                    Widgets, LaserStatus.
                     $23.
Ron Bannon
bannon@andromeda.rutgers.edu
bannon@math.rutgers.edu


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casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) (03/10/90)

In article <3056@draken.nada.kth.se> ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes:

>   Tractor-fed paper ("Z-fold") is usually exactly 12" in length. 
>   Does anyone know how to patch the LW driver so that one of the
>   paper choices, say, the US Letter (unused in this case since
>   mostly A4 is being used) would automagically give a form-feed
>   length of 12 inches?

Actually, in the U.S. the standard tractor-fed paper is exactly 11" in 
length.  What you want is the size called "International Fanfold" in the 
U.S. -- I don't know what label is used on the dialog button in other 
countries.  This size is 12 inches long and 210 mm wide.


David Casseres
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