Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!ads.com!sparkyfs!zwicky From: zwicky@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com (Elizabeth Zwicky) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Interleaf Keywords: interleaf Message-ID: <32663@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com> Date: 25 Sep 90 19:12:16 GMT References: <15057@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Reply-To: zwicky@pterodactyl.itstd.sri.com.UUCP (Elizabeth Zwicky) Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025 Lines: 22 Many of you will already have noticed that Interleaf is not my favorite program. It just dropped in my opinion. After numerous phone calls and a wait of some months, I just succeeded in purchasing the filters that I was told would let me drive my Imagen printers, in Impress, from a Sun 4 - I already drive these printers from Sun 3s, but we have succeeded in upgrading almost all our Sun 3 servers, and are having to drive the printers from more and more out-of-the-way machines. As it turns out, they are filters that would let me drive someone else's Imagen printers in Impress from a Sun 4; along the way, nobody bother to mentioned to me that they only work on printers that have just about all the bells and whistles you can attach to an Imagen. Not only do they have to have the Turbo option and the latest software, they also have to have the optional font cache. Now, as it happens, on our printers you can only get the Turbo option as part of the PostScript upgrade, so this only would work on the printers I could already drive in PostScript from the Sun 4s. Worse than that, we don't have the optional font cache on any of our printers; it's an option, after all. Nice of them not to tell me until after I paid them $1500... Elizabeth Zwicky