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From: john13@garfield.UUCP
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Subject: Re: PageSetter -- HELP Needed.
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Date: Wed, 24-Dec-86 00:07:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 24 00:07:04 1986
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Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Organization: Memorial University of Nfld, St. John's
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In article <7085@decwrl.DEC.COM> macdonald@author.dec.com (QRZ DE WA1OMM -- DTN 223-3439) writes:
>    However, when I boot Pagesetter off my V1.2 Workbench and attempt to
>    print the same file, I get a narrow blank line across the output
>    roughly every 10 lines. It only seems to happen from V1.2 Workbench.

I've only done sample output from the supplied Workbench - to a Panasonic
KX-P1091 using the supplied Epson driver. The only funny thing that happens
is that every so many lines it causes the printer to do a reset, which can
lead to following lines to be shifted 1 pixel over, not very difficult to
work around I'm sure. Now I haven't been on in over a week, and I have 70
more articles left to go to catch up (gone through 200 already); if I don't
see a review of PageSetter by then, beware! I may be FORCED to POST one :-) !

Capsule summary: Excellent WYSIWYG and user interface. Standard screen-oriented
fonts look terrible printed, others like Zuma fonts look fantastic (I'm trying 
to track down these Fish fonts and others to try). Best typewriter-style text 
so far from Ruby 12 edited to get rid of all those 2-pixel wide vertical lines.
Suggestions for improvements to print quality will follow, hopefully they will
get to Gold Disk somehow (someone in Toronto want to relay?). Using this edited
Ruby 12, print quality is pretty good for dot-matrix. Laser-printed output
remains to be seen. Graphic output, and ease of mixing text and graphics, is
good; clipping factors of 1:1 and 5:4 are selectable for *each* graphic area.

BTW, what exactly does the "kerning" selection in Font-Ed do? How does this
relate to presentation on the screen and/or printer?

John