kuehner@gauss.uswest.com (Warren Kuehner) (06/09/90)
I am using Microsoft Word on a PC and trying to print the output to postscript printers connected to a SUN network. My PC is connected to the network using PC-NFS. I have had some success printing in this environment using an initialization file I got from USENET (the files Microsoft provided are not adequate). I've been unable, however, to print embedded graphs in a document. The Postscript processor on the network usually gives errors early in the postscript file. Has anyone seen better initialization files or other things that might help? Thanks. Warren Kuehner U S West Advanced Technologies Englewood, Colorado
tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) (06/09/90)
While not totally what you wanted I have resolved one bad experience with Word5.0 and PostScript over the network. We use CAP/transcript on a sun and spool from PC's to the sun through ethernet via a gatorbox. CAP is pretty slick and captures "procsets" on Unix (of which LaserPrep is one such procset) You can then massage them to make them nice and any subsequent jobs needing that procset get the Unix stored version. Here is where Word5.0 croaked. It started a procset in its ini code but never ended it so CAP swallowed THE WHOLE DOCUMENT and replaced it with the Unix procset. Document gone! Vapour. I must admit I didn't call Microsoft about this since I thought the chances of explaining such a complex scenario to a front line support person and getting it acted upon was slim... but I thought someone here might be interested. Also on the same line we experienced Xon/Xoff problems with word5 and a call into Microsoft indicates there is a problem and that going into print options and TYPING in the driver name again will correct the situation (not selecting it with F1, typing it!!) OR there is a 5.0b that fixes the problem and they will send you the disks. This only affects serial connected printers. This is an annoying problem on a laserwriter since a few pages usually come out before things croak. 2 cents worth for today! tj