adam@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk (Adam Curtin) (06/20/91)
I've been trying without success to print a document from Acorn DTP. The document consists mainly of Trinity.Medium text, and a couple of Draw images There's a bit of Trinity.Bold and Trinity.Medium.Oblique for headlines and captions. I print via the PostScript printer driver with output redirected to a file, and then by magic get the file to a Sun SPARCstation 2, where I try to print the document via NeWSPrint to a SPARCprinter. [This is similar to a "Laser Direct" setup on the Archimedes - the PostScript imaging is done on the host which has a high-speed link to a basic laser printer] Now, when I print (or preview) the document, it's complete junk. The characters themselves are distorted, which at a glance appears to be down to font-selection lines like "/Trinity.Medium 533 1066 Fn". All of the font selections seem to be like this, distorting the fonts to be twice as wide as they are high. At the word level, things are really strange. There seem to be word gaps between letters and letter gaps between words! So the effect on a line is that the words are R e a l l yS p r e a dO u t with many words overlapping. The headline never makes it onto the page at all, for some reason, but to my joy the Draw images are represented perfectly! I haven't got a clue what's going wrong. I'm sure I'm not doing anything unusual, so I thought that before I dusted the red Adobe book off and prepared for my PostScript headache, I'd ask if you folk had experienced similar problems ... Thanks, Adam -- Who was the worst poet in the Galaxy in the original radio broadcast of HHGTTG, later changed to Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings on lawyers' advice?
garyb@abekrd.co.uk (Gary Bartlett) (06/21/91)
In <1991Jun20.105607.6100@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk> adam@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk (Adam Curtin) writes:
[talking about problems with PostScript printer driver]
Yes, I too had lots of problems printing using the PostScript printer driver.
I had to manually alter the PostScript files to get out what I'd put in.
Most of the problems looked really minor, missing (misplaced) font change
commands and the like.
I would hope that there was a new version by now with these bugs fixed. Will
people let me know the latest version of !PrinterPS that they have - if I'm
behind, I'd sure like to know.
Thanks,
Gary
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