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- In your message (Mon, 1 May 95 18:43 MDT), CTM wrote:
- >>>>>> "Tim" == Zoology <Tim> writes:
- >
- > Tim> The FoxBASE file not found error that I reported for 1.99k is
- > Tim> still there (not really a surprise). I can't load any
- > Tim> FoxBASE files. If there's any debug options I should try
- > Tim> please let me know!
- >
- >There's no debug switch you can use, although if we can't solve it
- >some other way we may add one and give you a private copy. I'm
- >checking on a CD-ROM we have that has a bunch of demoware to see if I
- >can find a FoxBASE demo. Who makes FoxBASE these days? Is there an
- >ftp site or bulletin board that may have a demo version?
-
- FoxBASE is I think under the Microsoft umbrella.
-
- > Tim> Printing I have only tried once, and it broke. :-( I tried
- > Tim> printing a Word 5.0 document. The PostScript output by
- > Tim> Executor is broken, somehow. Aladdin GhostScript 3.12 says:
- >
- >Yes, someone else has reported this. I had heard about this before
- >1.99m, but there were other printing problems that I *did* fix and I
- >forgot that newer GhostScripts don't like our PostScript, even though
- >the old GhostScript that we use has no complaints.
-
- Ah. Perhaps I should go back to the old one. I wanted full Level 2
- (only available with Aladdin) but I may go back to the old GNU
- version.
-
- > Tim> And another printing thing... how can I change the paper
- > Tim> size? Letter output looks awful on A4 paper.
- >
- >No way to do that now. What's the normal Linux procedure?
-
- There is no 'normal Linux procedure'. As with Windows or OS/2, you
- just need to tell it what sort of paper you have. This is an option
- to ghostscript, for example (-sPAPERSIZE=a4)
-
- What is required is for your PostScript driver to have option buttons
- for the common paper sizes (no-one really uses US Letter in the UK,
- except in some rare cases as fan-fold paper for dot-matrix printers),
- and just generate PostScript to the appropriate dimensions. I don't
- imagine this is too arduous is it? For the record, A4 is
- 11.69"x8.27", substantially taller and thinner than US letter.
-
- You then leave it up to the user to have the correct paper (as is the
- case now anyway).
-
- Hoping this could be done for 1.99n... :-)
-
- Tim.
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