Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!orion!caelum!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!dual!mordor!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Mac XL LaserWriter Incompatibility Message-ID: <267@utastro.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 17:04:51 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.267 Posted: Fri Jun 21 17:04:51 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 00:42:33 EDT References: <257@utastro.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 39 > We have recently gotten a LaserWriter here and I have run > into a strange incompatibility when using it with documents > prepared on my Mac XL (running Finder 4.1 and the prerelease > autoboot system). Although I installed a complete set of > laserwriter fonts and the LaserPrep and LaserWriter drivers, > I do not have a LaserWriter attached to my machine, and instead > must take disks upstairs to be printed. > > When I do so, I find that the formatting of MS Word documents is > subtly changed because character widths assumed when I format > the document on the XL are altered. This changes pagination, > etc., and propagates throughout the document. I have found a more convenient workaround to this problem which I will share. (a) Launch Word or MacWrite. (b) Deselect the ImageWriter by using the Choose Printer DA; click on the empty area of the menu to unhilight the ImageWriter choice. (c) Pull down "Print" from the File menu. (d) Click "Cancel" when the LaserWriter dialog box pops up. (e) Quit the application and start it up again. All of these steps appear to be required. It doesn't seem to work, e.g., from the desktop. I have no idea why it works. I consider this a terrible kludge, but at least it does work and for the moment I can get things done. APPLE OUGHT TO FIX THIS IN THE NEXT RELEASE!! Apple--Are you listening? -- "Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal Bill Jefferys 8-% Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712 (USnail) {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!bill (uucp) bill%utastro.UTEXAS@ut-sally.ARPA (ARPANET)