nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) (10/19/90)
I've just printed myself a copy of Tech Note #184. It's taken me about an hour to do so. The tech notes seem to be hand-crafted in layout for US-size paper. Because we use A4 in Europe, every tech note has to be re-formatted with reduced margins, the tab stops have to be moved, the fixed page boundaries have to be removed and repositioned, and it takes a number of printings to get it right. This is all in MS Word - MacWrite chokes on the Tech Notes completely, overwriting words with each other, advancing past the end of the file, and all kinds of junk. So, PLEASE, folks, write your tech notes so that they can be printed on A4 paper as well as US. I'm sure the solid lines between sections and the flashy header look good on your paper, but not on ours (the heading degenerates into "Develop Technical Sup", and the separators look like this:) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I also don't get what I assume is supposed to be an Apple logo at the top - do I really need to have the Dingbats font (or whatever) loaded just so I can print tech notes? Anyway, I now have a reasonably readable copy of the Notification Manager tech note (from page 1 of 5 all the way to page 6 of 5). All I have to do now is reformat the remaining 200-odd... -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "Now remember - and this is most important - you must think in Russian."
newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) (10/21/90)
In article <708@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk writes: >So, PLEASE, folks, write your tech notes so that they can be printed >on A4 paper as well as US. Amen. >I also don't get what I assume is supposed to be an Apple logo at >the top - do I really need to have the Dingbats font (or whatever) >loaded just so I can print tech notes? Are you using a genuine Apple LaserWriter? Our QMS 2200PS has real Adobe PostScript but does not have the Apple symbol in its Symbol font, so my printed copies of the TNs come out minus the Apple. -- Michael Newbery<newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz> Milligan: "About the ceiling in my room." Manager: "Yes M'sieu?" Milligan: "I'd like one."
rcbalc@rw9.urc.tue.nl (Luc Cluitmans) (10/23/90)
In article <708@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>, nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes: > I've just printed myself a copy of Tech Note #184. > > It's taken me about an hour to do so. > > The tech notes seem to be hand-crafted in layout for US-size paper. > Because we use A4 in Europe, every tech note has to be re-formatted > with reduced margins, the tab stops have to be moved, the fixed > page boundaries have to be removed and repositioned, and it takes a > number of printings to get it right. > > This is all in MS Word - MacWrite chokes on the Tech Notes completely, > overwriting words with each other, advancing past the end of the file, > and all kinds of junk. > > So, PLEASE, folks, write your tech notes so that they can be printed > on A4 paper as well as US. I'm sure the solid lines between sections > and the flashy header look good on your paper, but not on ours I too hope that apple and other american companies realize that here in europe other papersizes (in casu: A4) are used. Up till the time they realize this the following recipe might be usefull. (it works only with printers that have printer-scale ability, such as the laserwriter (or any other postscript printer)) 1 Load the technote in your favorite word processor. I use NISUS but any other that uses the standard printer dialog boxes supplied by the printer driver should work. Note that with MS Word you should select "Page setup" with the shift key depressed (I thought you get the standard printer box that way; I haven't used MS Word for a while). 2 Select page setup (after having chosen the right printer of course) 3 In the dialog box you get now there should be an entry called "scaling" (or something like that). It is initialised to 100%. 4 Set this value to 94% and return to your document. 5 You see that the document is much better now, but check all page breaks before you print. There might be some pages that are nearly empty. 6 If you like to do so, add a nice header or footer. I hope this works for you. BTW: I managed to get the big apple logo on the top of the technote by simply using a real Laserwriter. I haven't seen the logo coming out of the QMS printer we have here... Have some nice days reformatting the technotes ! 8-) -- ............................................................................ Luc Cluitmans rcbalc@urc.tue.nl Don't Worry, Be happy! (Signature under construction... Be patient.)
roland@dna.lth.se (Roland Mansson) (10/23/90)
In article <170@rc6.urc.tue.nl> rcbalc@urc.tue.nl writes: >In article <708@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>, nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes: >> The tech notes seem to be hand-crafted in layout for US-size paper. >> Because we use A4 in Europe, every tech note has to be re-formatted >> with reduced margins, the tab stops have to be moved, the fixed >> page boundaries have to be removed and repositioned, and it takes a >> number of printings to get it right. I print the Tech Notes with the old MacWrite (5.0). Sometimes (seldom) I get an extra page (like page 6 of 5) but otherwise there are no problems with line or page breaks. Of course it would be nice if the Notes wouldn't be hand-crafted for US paper, but it's not a big problem. The important thing is that the Notes are written and made available. I guess you could avoid the problem completely by using a US system disk when printing. -- Roland Mansson, Lund University Computing Center, Box 783, S220 07 Lund, Sweden Phone: +46-46107436 Fax: +46-46138225 Bitnet: roland_m@seldc52 Internet: roland.mansson@ldc.lu.se or roland.mansson%ldc.lu.se@uunet.uu.net UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!sunic!ldc.lu.se!roland.mansson AppleLink: SW0022