marty@june.cs.washington.edu (Marty Sirkin) (04/23/89)
I am currently having a problem with printing, and I hope that somebody on the net has had a similar problem and knows what my problem is: I have written a routine which is almost directly out of IM-2 for printing. I call on a printing routine which gets a picture attached to a window, and calls drawpicture to draw it on the printer. The routine seemed to work fine on both the Imagewriter and the laserwriter. I then added a large number of "moveto" and "lineto" commands to the picture attached to a window. It still prints just great on the Imagewriter, but now it has trouble printing on the laserwriter. I either get an "Illegal instruction" message (on the PrCloseDocument), or it spools (I am using TOPS - but it also failed without TOPS) and I get an error on spooling (-192). If I take out the moveto and linto commands it prints just great! Any ideas? The other question is simpler. I have routines which draw sine curves (or close approximations of them. I'd like to get the output to be a bit smoother on the printer (without having to resort to PostScript). Does anyone out there have any good suggestions? Thanks for the help. Marty Sirkin marty@june.cs.washington.edu