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From: hallett@shoreland.uucp (Jeff Hallett x4-6328)
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Subject: Re: Printing On a LaserWriter -- hints
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Date: 30 Aug 89 14:27:38 GMT
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In article <123914@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lemay@sun.UUCP (Laura Lemay) writes:
>
>Although the Mac advertises as WYSIWYG, it is not necessarily so.  Fonts
>that are displayed on the screen are not the same size/shape etc as the
>postscript fonts that appear printed on the LW.  So the laserwriter reformats
>everything as best it can with the font it is told to use.  (All right,

The easier way is to get the actual Adobe fonts.  The Apple fonts
differ slightly in spacing and style than the Adobe ones - enough to
make them print differently.  If you go over to CompuServe in the
Adobe forum, you can get any screen font you want.  Some of them are
also on Sumex-Aim, through anonymous FTP.

>
>3.  How do I keep a startup page from printing when I turn on the laserwriter?
>
>This has been beaten to death on this bboard for a while now, but basically 
>tehre are two ways to do it:
>
>1.  (If you're not a postscript hacker).  Pull out the paper tray an inch
>or so when the LW starts up, until the orange light goes on steadily.
>
>2.  (If you are a postscript hacker).  Damn.  I thought I rememebred this
>one.  Basically it involves getting into interactive mode with the laserwriter
>(or sending a script to the LW interactively), and changing a variable
>called "setdostartpage."  Sigh.  Is tehre someone out there who could
>write the actual script to be downloaded to the LW and post it?

The code is "0 serverdict begin exitserver statusdict begin false
setdostartpage end".  To make it print again, substitute "true" for
"false".  Even better is to get the Word document from Sumex-Aim that
has this code built into it and send that when you want it off.  Best
is to get DiskTop from CE Software which includes a number of
LaserWriter utilities, including ones to show the current LaserWriter
status and toggle the startup page.

>On interesting quirk of having fonts in the laserwriter is that these mathematical
>formulas for fonts can be scaled to any size.  You may only have four sizes
>of a particular font installed in you system, but you can print any size you
>want on the LW.  Depending on the program you use, larger or wierd size fonts
>will either not be available or will come out looking really wierd on the screen.
>But they will look fine when printed.

To paraphrase Chuq VonRospach, "Fixed in System 7.0" (somewhat).

Good posting Laura.  Someone should set their server to repost this
every month. :^) :^)

--
                Jeffrey A. Hallett, PET Software Engineering
                    GE Medical Systems, W641, PO Box 414
                            Milwaukee, WI  53201
          (414) 548-5163 : EMAIL -  hallett@positron.gemed.ge.com