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Re: Let's get System 7.x on top!
>>>>> "Hyung-song Nam" == Hyung-song Nam <namh@wintermute.resnet.cornell.edu> writes:
In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960419093922.157A-100000@wintermute.resnet.cornell.edu> Hyung-song Nam <namh@wintermute.resnet.cornell.edu> writes:
Hyung-song Nam> On 18 Apr 1996, Adam J. Thornton wrote:
>> In article <KOSOWSKY.96Apr18142715@bellini.harvard.edu>,
>> Jeffrey J. Kosowsky <kosowsky@bellini.harvard.edu> wrote: >So,
>> for my purposes at least, better PostScript printing is a very
>> >high priority.
>>
>> If you can get Executor to give you a .PS file, what's wrong
>> with running ghostscript (which is free) under Linux to print?
>> Install gs and one of the magic-filter programs and it'll work,
>> or at least it does for me.
Hyung-song Nam> Well, that's useless if the .PS file generated by
Hyung-song Nam> executor is incorrect. Try printing any font
Hyung-song Nam> above 20pt in MS Word 5.1a. Only the first letter
Hyung-song Nam> shows up. I don't know if it works for you, but it
Hyung-song Nam> doesn't for me.
That's a bug we should be able to fix before Executor 2 is released.
Hyung-song Nam> Also, I don't know if my gs is setup incorrectly,
Hyung-song Nam> but output through gs looks pretty crappy at
Hyung-song Nam> 600dpi even with genuine Adobe type 1 fonts. It's
Hyung-song Nam> not matter of it will work, but how well it works.
We have fixed a few of the easier to fix printing problems already (we
no longer put spaces in our translated font names so it is possible to
map them) and we'll try to fix a few more easily fixed things like the
problem with fonts > 20pt you mention above, but other printing fixes
will require better interaction with the native printing capabilities
presented by different OSes which means that it makes more sense for
us to improve the printing subsystem after we've cleaned up our code
to better isolate OS dependent things.
Hyung-song Nam> -Hyung-song Nam hn16@cornell.edu
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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