[comp.windows.ms] PostScript Driver

oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer) (02/13/90)

Recently I installed my new copy of Word for Windows. Microsoft has a setup
program which also updates your Windows/286 files and drivers. It doesn't 
ask you! Anyway, after printing something to my postscript printer, an
Apple Laserwriter NTX, I got a printer error of Stack Overflow on the command
"aload" which is load an array. The array was the ANSIVec which holds some
character remaps and defs I believe. The file it produced was also poorly 
written with fewer <CRLF> than I am use to seeing in a PS file for these
printers.

I reinstalled my old PS driver and the problem went away. If anyone has any
info on this, please email me and I will post a summary to the net.

Richard Oppenheimer
oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu
Computer Science Center
University of Maryland

meyer@suna5.cs.uiuc.edu (02/16/90)

A related hardship: after installing on my system, w/ Win386, the PostScipt
driver would only print Courier to my IBM Personal PagePrinter.  Changing the
printer to an Apple Laserwriter within the driver yielded the other fonts, but 
the print quality suffered.

Needless to say, I reinstalled the old PostScript driver ASAP.

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reilly@bnlux1.bnl.gov (kevin reilly) (04/11/91)

I have been using the postscript printer driver dumping the postscript
commands to a file and then uploading the file to a computer that is
interfaced to a QMS ColorPrinter 100.
The results are just great except for the problem that what I see on the
screen tends to get clipped on the printout.

I remember this has been discussed on the net previously so please
forgive me.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?
If so, what is the fix?
I have downloaded the latest  PS driver from cica.

Kevin M. Reilly 
reilly@bnlux1.bnl.gov

leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) (04/11/91)

In article <1991Apr10.223427.13175@bnlux1.bnl.gov> reilly@bnlux1.bnl.gov (kevin reilly) writes:
>The results are just great except for the problem that what I see on the
>screen tends to get clipped on the printout.

Are the margins set correctly? ... if I remember, this printer has terrible
margins (over an inch on the left/right sides) ... other wise I am not sure 
what you might be running into.


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