castan@munnari.oz (Jason Castan) (08/01/88)
Several people have complained that macwrite does not print properly with moire running. I will fix it in the next version. The problem from my end is that i live in an laserwriter/word environment and we have never sufferd these problems. Moire works perfectly on a laserwriter, which suggests that the problem is in the imagewriter /macwrite code. Nevertheless, i suppose i have to do fix this as so many people use macwrite. I will either disable moire when imagewriter printing occurs in macwrite, or maybe if i'm lucky i'll find a workaround. There are many programs out there that handle events/windows in a non-standard fashion. These are not bugs, but it makes writing neat backgrounding utilities much more difficult. Works, Excel, Word, and Illustrator are the most memorable examples. Not fun tracing through such programs to find out why moire wasnt working...of course all these problems have been fixed. Hopefully I should be able to iron this *last* bug out before my birthday (in 10 days time). john lim author of Moire ps : i heard from a friend that there was a rave review of moire in macweek. thanks dave for the good news.
engst@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Adam C. Engst) (08/03/88)
In article <2265@munnari.oz> you write: > >Several people have complained that macwrite does not print properly with >moire running. I will fix it in the next version. The problem from my end >is that i live in an laserwriter/word environment and we have never sufferd >these problems. Moire works perfectly on a laserwriter, which suggests that >the problem is in the imagewriter /macwrite code. Nevertheless, i suppose >i have to do fix this as so many people use macwrite. I will either disable >moire when imagewriter printing occurs in macwrite, or maybe if i'm lucky >i'll find a workaround. > >There are many programs out there that handle events/windows in a non-standard >fashion. These are not bugs, but it makes writing neat backgrounding utilities >much more difficult. Works, Excel, Word, and Illustrator are the most memorable >examples. Not fun tracing through such programs to find out why moire wasnt >working...of course all these problems have been fixed. > >Hopefully I should be able to iron this *last* bug out before my birthday (in >10 days time). > john lim > author of Moire >ps : i heard from a friend that there was a rave review of moire in macweek. >thanks dave for the good news. I personally avoid Macwrite like the plague, but I have had many problems using Moire (the earlier version admittedly) with Pagemaker 2.0a, or rather, with AldusPrep for 2.0a. What happened is that if I was printing a large or complex (scanned graphics and a fair amount of placed text) document and Moire kicked in, the laser wouldn't print certain parts of the document (usually the scanned graphics). Occassionally unpredictable results would occur even if Moire didn't kick in but was resident; however, I couldn't find a pattern to that. If I switched the Apple driver in favor of AldusPrep, the problem went away (but the print wasn't as nice). I ended up having to delete Moire since it caused so much hassle with my Pagemaker documents. Actually the other reason was because as the end of the semester came around people started watching Moire more than they worked on the Mac and we needed to get a certain amount of stuff done. In general, though Moire is a really nice program and I will definitely use it at home where I don't have a laser printer and thus don't care about AldusPrep being happy. The other possibility is that Pagemaker 3.0 and the newer version of Moire won't fight any more. Adam -- Adam C. Engst engst@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu pv9y@cornella.bitnet "If it's not interactive, it's not fun."
dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) (08/04/88)
In article <5753@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> engst@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Adam C. Engst) writes: > In general, though Moire is a really nice program and I will definitely >use it at home where I don't have a laser printer and thus don't care about >AldusPrep being happy. The other possibility is that Pagemaker 3.0 and the >newer version of Moire won't fight any more. I use Moire in conjunction with PageMaker 3.0. I have experienced no problems. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner IfUMust: (217) 333-3339