karl@grebyn.COM (Karl A. Nyberg) (06/13/88)
A customer (with a PC) is writing a manual using WordPerfect Version 4.2,
and attempting to print the resulting output on my Apple Laser Writer (using
Postscript).
The preface to the file he uploaded appears as:
% WordPerfect Virtual Printer Interface Program Version 1.00
% A PostScript program to emulate a simple Microspace printer
% (C)Copyright 1986 WordPerfect Corporation - All Rights Reserved
After stripping off the extra carriage returns (^Ms) and sending everything
to the Laser printer, I either get a blank page, or everything in ascii.
Adding the "%!" string on the first line doesn't help any either.
He's also trying to be able to print all sorts of graphics (that come across
in the range of 128 .. 255). He's using kermit, and I don't think anything
has been damaged in transit.
Anybody else succeeded with this situation? Thanks.
-- Karl --
Karl A. Nyberg karl@grebyn.com, nyberg@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu
Grebyn Corporation karl%grebyn.com@umd5.umd.edu
P. O. Box 1144 {decuac,umd5}!grebyn!karl
Vienna, VA 22180-1144 703-281-2194 jchester@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU (Henry S. Horn) (06/30/88)
WP 4.2 doesn't work well with a PostScript printer under the best of circumstances in my experience. If you have graphics and/or different size fonts, or even worse, columns in tables that you want to line up, forget it. That driver is a kludge. However, you should be getting text out of some sort, even if it looks horrible. WP 5.0 is supposed to have fixed all the problems, though I haven't tried it yet. --Jon radel jonradel@icecream.princeton.edu