Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rc6.urc.tue.nl!rw9.urc.tue.nl!rcbalc From: rcbalc@rw9.urc.tue.nl (Luc Cluitmans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Plea to the writers of the Tech Notes Summary: A recipe for use with Postscript printers Message-ID: <170@rc6.urc.tue.nl> Date: 22 Oct 90 17:07:21 GMT References: <708@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Sender: News Administration Reply-To: rcbalc@urc.tue.nl Lines: 57 In article <708@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk>, nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes: > I've just printed myself a copy of Tech Note #184. > > It's taken me about an hour to do so. > > The tech notes seem to be hand-crafted in layout for US-size paper. > Because we use A4 in Europe, every tech note has to be re-formatted > with reduced margins, the tab stops have to be moved, the fixed > page boundaries have to be removed and repositioned, and it takes a > number of printings to get it right. > > This is all in MS Word - MacWrite chokes on the Tech Notes completely, > overwriting words with each other, advancing past the end of the file, > and all kinds of junk. > > So, PLEASE, folks, write your tech notes so that they can be printed > on A4 paper as well as US. I'm sure the solid lines between sections > and the flashy header look good on your paper, but not on ours I too hope that apple and other american companies realize that here in europe other papersizes (in casu: A4) are used. Up till the time they realize this the following recipe might be usefull. (it works only with printers that have printer-scale ability, such as the laserwriter (or any other postscript printer)) 1 Load the technote in your favorite word processor. I use NISUS but any other that uses the standard printer dialog boxes supplied by the printer driver should work. Note that with MS Word you should select "Page setup" with the shift key depressed (I thought you get the standard printer box that way; I haven't used MS Word for a while). 2 Select page setup (after having chosen the right printer of course) 3 In the dialog box you get now there should be an entry called "scaling" (or something like that). It is initialised to 100%. 4 Set this value to 94% and return to your document. 5 You see that the document is much better now, but check all page breaks before you print. There might be some pages that are nearly empty. 6 If you like to do so, add a nice header or footer. I hope this works for you. BTW: I managed to get the big apple logo on the top of the technote by simply using a real Laserwriter. I haven't seen the logo coming out of the QMS printer we have here... Have some nice days reformatting the technotes ! 8-) -- ............................................................................ Luc Cluitmans rcbalc@urc.tue.nl Don't Worry, Be happy! (Signature under construction... Be patient.)