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From: kg19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kurt A. Geisel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: WordPerfect Problems
Message-ID: <YZ=rzqq00WB7Q3MrUz@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 8 Oct 89 17:12:22 GMT
Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I am having a few problems with WordPerfect.  I would greatly
appreciate any advice.

1)  I recently upgraded to System 6.0.3 and LaserWriter Driver 5.2.
In my previous System/LaserWriter, I could create PostScript files and
print them from Unix with absolute reliability.  Since I have
upgraded, nothing printed from WordPerfect will even print one page.
It just compiles to nothing on a standard LaserWriter.  Yes, I am
doing everything exactly the same as before, including the prepending
of "%!", including LaserPrep and all that.  While inconvenient, I can
live with this because I can always take the disk to a Mac which is on
AppleTalk and print from there.  Still, it is strange that it worked
before and not now.

2)  Even when I successfully print, the output seems to be unusually
UGLY.  For one thing, the "Print Preview" seems to have NOTHING to do
with the actual printed output- nothing lines up the way I formatted.
For instance, I had major problems with a two-column document.  The
right edge of the left column was running over the left edge of the
right column, while the measurements set up in WP would in no way
allow that and the Print Preview showed nothing of the kind.
Furthermore, what the Print Preview showed lying on a given page was
often not even close to what page it wound up on.  This sounds like an
awfully inaccurate WYSIWYG...

In all cases, I am using STANDARD Apple LaserWriters, WP 1.0.1 (I've
ordered the 1.0.3 upgrade), and normal Helvetica fonts which I KNOW are
on the LaserWriters- nothing fancy, no bitmaps, no custom PS, etc.

Thanks,

- Kurt
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