Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!indri!aplcen!haven!umd5!vbob From: vbob@umd5.umd.edu (Bob Shields) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: HP DeskWriter Bug? Message-ID: <5200@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 10 Aug 89 20:40:13 GMT References: <18981.24E12EE5@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Reply-To: vbob@umd5.umd.edu (Bob Shields) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 27 In article <18981.24E12EE5@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> David.Bolducwrites: >Tried this weekend to use an HP DeskWriter on a Mac IIcx, 5 meg, Apple 80 >meg HD. Worked great except for one problem - printing from Zedcor's >DeskPaint bombed every time with an ID=10 message. Anyone else have the >samer problem or know of a solution? BTW, System was 6.0.3, and the >DeskWriter prints just fine with DeskPaint's companion, DeskDraw. > >-- >David Bolduc via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH I also have purchased the HP DeskWriter and am generally pleased with the results, but I've found a few "bugs" also. MS Word 3.1 prints left-justified text correctly, but text that is right-justified, or positioned by a tab stop gets printed approximately 1/8 inch to the right. This error is cumulative, so the text following a fourth tab column is a full inch to the right. I tried the same test with MacWrite and it outputs correctly. The print dialog in MS Word also obliterates the DeskWriter "Best|Faster" buttons and the "Back to Font" checkbox. Has anyone tried MS Word 4.0 with a DeskWriter? Another problem I have is that every program I have written with THINK C which prints fails during the "PrPicFile" function with the dialog box indicating there is not enough memory available to use the driver's outline font descriptions (even though my programs are only 40-60K in size running under Finder with System 6.0.3 and I have 2.5Mb of RAM). Since the THINK C compiler itself prints files just fine, I wonder if there is some magic command I must issue to get these programs to work? Any suggestions would be appreciated.