geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) (08/29/89)
I was making some overhead transparencies on my Mac (SE, System 6.0.2, 1
Meg., ImageWriter II) and formatted them in Times, 24 point. When I got
them all formatted like I wanted, I went to my 'local' Apple dealer (50
miles away, but that's another story) to print them on a laser printer.
The 24 point Times on the SE/30 (boy is it fast!) at the dealer was
bigger than my 24 point Times, so all my formatting was screwed up. The
dealer wasn't sure what was going on. He did mention the need to use
'tall adjusted' when preparing a document for eventual laser printing,
but he didn't think that explained the difference.
The printer was a LaserWriter IINTX, and both computers were running
Word 3.
So, why was Times not Times?
--
Geoff Allen, WINCO Computer Process Engineering
{uunet, bigtex}!pmafire!geoff <or> ucdavis!egg-id!pmafire!geoff
So, what's the latest price for 1 Meg SIMMS?oplinger@minerva.crd.ge.com (B. S. Oplinger) (08/29/89)
In article <728@pmafire.UUCP> geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) writes: >I was making some overhead transparencies on my Mac (SE, System 6.0.2, 1 >Meg., ImageWriter II) and formatted them in Times, 24 point. When I got [ stuff deleted about system descriptions] > >So, why was Times not Times? > It could be the question you want is so when is letter size not letter size? That is a problem I had when creating documents at home and then taking them to work. I was tld that the print areas of the Imagewriter and the LaserPrinter and for that matter the LQ Imagewriter are all different. If you formatted your document to fit within the page (printable area) for the IW and then tried it on a LW they are different. Try formatting your document with the printer device of LaserWriter chosen on you home computer, even if you do not have a LW. Hopefully this will solve your problems, it solved mine. Brian
d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) (08/29/89)
In article <728@pmafire.UUCP> geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) writes: >The 24 point Times on the SE/30 (boy is it fast!) at the dealer was >bigger than my 24 point Times, so all my formatting was screwed up. The There are several possible solutions: Your dealer could have a different version of Times installed (not likely) YOU could have.... (not likely either) You wrote your file using PageSetup for an ImageWriter, and then imported it to a Word for LaserWriter (I believe this is it) This is because a) the ImageWriter uses 72 dots/inch and the LW 300 dpi wich scales down to 75 dpi. b) the LaserWriter uses its internal font while the ImageWriter uses the bitmapped font available in your computer. Word accounts for this, but since your formatting was made with the printer set for a ImageWriter... Of course, I could be totally wrong. Happy Hacking -- This is your fortune from h+@nada.kth.se: I came; I saw; I fucked up
macduff@cbnewse.ATT.COM (Roger R. Espinosa) (08/30/89)
In article <1972@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, oplinger@minerva.crd.ge.com (B. S. Oplinger) writes: > In article <728@pmafire.UUCP> geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) writes: > >I was making some overhead transparencies on my Mac (SE, System 6.0.2, 1 > >Meg., ImageWriter II) and formatted them in Times, 24 point. When I got > [ stuff deleted about system descriptions] > > > >So, why was Times not Times? > > > > It could be the question you want is so when is letter size not > letter size? That is a problem I had when creating documents at > home and then taking them to work. I was tld that the print areas > of the Imagewriter and the LaserPrinter and for that matter the > > Brian What Brian says is a problem in switching drivers; but I think what B.S. Oplinger is commenting is that even with the correct drivers, 12-point Times comes out *huge* on the LaserWriter, while it's very tiny on the Macintosh screen. I recently downloaded lots of screen fonts from the adobe directly on sumex, among them was Times. I thought I'd get the same old Times that came with my system disk, only with defined italics and bold faces. HAH! Adobe Times *is different* from Apple Times ... it's *larger*. I would guess that this is the problem described above. Just a guess. Roger
holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander) (08/30/89)
>The 24 point Times on the SE/30 (boy is it fast!) at the dealer was >bigger than my 24 point Times, so all my formatting was screwed up. The Could be one of you was using Apple's screen fonts and the other Adobe's. I don't know first hand, but, I've heard the formatting may be different. -Fred ______________________________________________________________________________ | Fred Hollander | | | Computer Science Center | "Ha ha ha ha ha ha, Ah what a day!" | | Texas Instruments, Inc. | -- Joker | | Internet: hollander@ti.com | | | Telnet: 214/995-0696 | The above statements are my own and not | | AppleLink: D1392 | representative of Texas Instruments. | ______________________________________________________________________________
av@tolsun.oulu.fi (Ari Vaulo) (08/31/89)
From article <728@pmafire.UUCP>, by geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen): > I was making some overhead transparencies on my Mac (SE, System 6.0.2, 1 > Meg., ImageWriter II) and formatted them in Times, 24 point. When I got > them all formatted like I wanted, I went to my 'local' Apple dealer (50 > miles away, but that's another story) to print them on a laser printer. > The 24 point Times on the SE/30 (boy is it fast!) at the dealer was > bigger than my 24 point Times, so all my formatting was screwed up. The > dealer wasn't sure what was going on. He did mention the need to use > 'tall adjusted' when preparing a document for eventual laser printing, > but he didn't think that explained the difference. > > The printer was a LaserWriter IINTX, and both computers were running > Word 3. > > So, why was Times not Times? > I had this kind of problem last year. When I was writing a file at home I used the exactly the same version of LaserWriter driver than at work. The both machines were Mac II and my System version and fonts were the same (I installed both systems myself). When I encoutered problems I went home and copied Word Setting -file and tried again, but it didn't help at all. The only difference I found after one week of searching was that the versions of MS Word 3 were: Home: Version 3.01b Work: Version 3.0 Try your own copy of Word when you are printing your files. Hope this will help you. > -- > Geoff Allen, WINCO Computer Process Engineering > {uunet, bigtex}!pmafire!geoff <or> ucdavis!egg-id!pmafire!geoff ---- Ari Vaulo University of Oulu Institute of Information Processing Science Finland eMail: av@tolsun.oulu.fi > > So, what's the latest price for 1 Meg SIMMS? Awful high here in Finland. --AVa