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From: lippin@wish-bone.berkeley.edu (The Apathist)
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Subject: Re: Page Rectangles (Reply part two)
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Date: 9 Oct 90 03:58:59 GMT
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Recently czychi@bernina.UUCP (Gary Czychi) quoted Sean Parent:

>> Well, the
>> ImageWriter code was also used in the LaserWriter SC adjusted for the
>> memory requirements of that device with all of the same original bugs,
>> yet new and different printable areas. This is one of the worst cases
>> of propagating bugs that you will ever see. Unfortunatly it cannot be
>> fixed in existing drivers without reformatting everybodies documents.

How about a PrGeneral verb which gives the printer driver a slap on
the wrist and instructs it to tell the truth?  Most programs could
turn this on without reformatting any documents, because they format
them to the user's chosen margins, not the printer's (and the
printer's would only be getting wider).  Those that can't print on a
wider page without reformatting (blech!) could let the printer lie to
them.

					--Tom Lippincott
					  lippin@math.berkeley.edu

     "What Mahab has said is true: our customs are different.
      What the Klingon has said is unimportant; we do not hear his words."
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