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From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType?
Summary: I'll go over there Monday
	 or tuesday
Message-ID: <1553@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 90 02:38:27 GMT
References: <9724@goofy.Apple.COM> <438@three.mv.com> <9931@goofy.Apple.COM> <267@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
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In article <267@heaven.woodside.ca.us>, glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
> 
> I'm not ready to eat the toner cartridge yet.  Have you ever had the

> other things might be happening, but I won't believe that's one of them
> unless Ed Taft tells me so.
> 
> But, rather than shut up, which is probably what I should do, I'll venture
> some more half-baked thoughts :-)

Half baked or not, that's what this forum is all about.

> 
> >The fonts were supplied on  MS-DOS disks, along with screen fonts for
> 
> Perhaps it is related to the parallel port somehow?  I've never driven a
> PostScript printer through a parallel port.  I suppose it is possible that
> the parallel driver does different things than the serial driver does, and

That might be the case.  I'll test it.

Either Monday or Tuesday, depending on my schedule etc etc, I'll drive
over and test it.  I'll test Glenns'code, as well as make the change
to one of the fonts to use the anchor search technique.  I'll also
test the following
(%%%)
%%%%%%%%%%%%%
(***)
%***************
(jjj)
/jjjjjjjj 0 def
as search strings.
I don't know whether I can test it with serial or not.  I think the machine
only has one serial port and it is dedicated to the mouse.  Of all the
PS printers that I have sold that have centronics interfaces, to a printer
they are used with the centronics interface.  It is *MUCH* faster than
serial mode, and does not have the handshaking problems.  It might be
interesting to tabluate percentages of useage of the various interfaces.

If anyone has any other ideas for testing this, let me know....

> 
> It's also possible that the program is just getting a PostScript error
> somewhere and is flushing the rest of the file; I assume that Woody would

It isnot flushing the rest of the file.  The NEC has a front panel
and the thing just hangs in PROCESSING rather than dropping back to 
IDLE which is what should happen if it just flushed the job.

> 
> 
> I'd stake that toner cartridge that this isn't happening on AppleTalk or
> 
> 
> Now I've become curious about this whole issue.  If it's a real
> problem, it ought to pop up all over the place, not just on Woody's
> system, unless the intersection between people who read
> comp.lang.postscript and those driving PS printers over Centronics
> ports from PC clones is a very small set, which I would be happy to
> believe.

It happens on a client of mine.  She runs a KWIK COPY franchise, and
purchased an AT and a NEC from someone else rather than me.  She
thought the other guy walked on air, that is until he sold her the
system and then disappeared.  Then guess who she called on???
That was always one of my pet peeves in the sales business. :-)
>