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From: waterstraat@GARNET.UCDAVIS.EDU (Paul Waterstraat)
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Subject: Re: SuperPaint 2.0 Printing over appletalk
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Date: 26 Nov 90 19:46:28 GMT
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In article <2365@sparko.gwu.edu>, fs285119@seas.gwu.edu (Scott Cherkofsky)
writes:

>I manage a network that has both Ethernet and Appletalk access between the
>Macintoshes ...
>
>Problem:
>
>When I try to print FROM ANY MAC ON EITHER NETWORK from superpaint 2.0 the
>Printmonitor thinks for a bit, and then says that it has come up with a
>overflow of some sort, encountered a bad command and sometimes even tells 
>me that a Postscript error has occurred.
>
>Has anyone ever had this happen before?  If so, is there a fix?

Yes, we see this with unsettling regularity. Usually the problem is prefaces
with "the file printed OK yesterday, then today I added few things and now it
won't print."  So far I've assumed that SuperPaint is somewhat brain-damaged
when it comes to printing complicated graphics to a PostScript (tm) printer.

> ...is there a fix?

If you are *desparate* you can save the file from SuperPaint as a MacPaint 
file and then use MacPaint to print that (not pretty, but it works, sortof.)

I don't thing that this is an AppleTalk or a PostScript problem, but I am
willing to entertain any ideas that others might have.

I hope this is useful,
---Paul.

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