neufeld@physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) (11/13/90)
Well, I've asked this question before on local BBS systems, but maybe
it's time to branch out.
Does anybody have a problem printing out picture files from a
DeluxePaint which hasn't been installed on a hard drive? Ever since I
bought the program, even booting off the original and not my working
copy, it's had an annoying problem with printing out. After completing
the picture it continues to print lines of constant bit density off the
bottom of the picture. With a colour ribbon, it prints one colour at a
constant bit density. With the new driver, when I select a 50% condensed
image, the right half of the page is covered with a uniform grey. This
grey isn't constant from picture to picture, but is the same within any
one picture. Occasionally it's completely white, so the printer prints
blank lines after the picture is printed out, until I press <OA>-.
I am running DeluxePaint ][ v2.0 under the OS it was packaged with,
v4.0, as well as under 5.0.2 and 5.0.3. This problem has appeared
consistenly under every OS. Booting off the working copy doesn't help,
nor does setting the RAM disk to zero (I normally have it at min=0,
max=800kB despite the fact that it messes up GS/OS; you can fix that by
verifying the RAM disk immediately after the boot).
I have a ROM01 Apple ][GS with a fully populated 1.5MB Applied
Engineering GS-RAM (for a total of 1.75MB), one each of 3"1/2 and 5"1/4
drives, and a DataLink 2400 modem. The problem was present when I had
only 1.25MB RAM, and before I got the modem. Of course, the Apple checks
out fine on the self test, and I have trouble with only one other
program.......
BeagleWrite GS. I received the upgrade from my original MultiScribe
disk. Now that I have BeagleWrite, the spell checker is useless. It
selects words which are perfectly good, and when I ask it what it thinks
I should use, it answers with the word that is already there. It also
does not update the user dictionary. I had none of these problems with
MultiScribe. I haven't tried running it under 5.0.3 yet, but I don't
anticipate any major improvements.
My suspicion is that testers worked with these two programs on hard
drives only, and that something with the disk switching mechanism is
confusing them.
Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.
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