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From: jack@Taffy.rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: OzTeX/Freedom of Press Light/DeskWriter
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.043243.15499@rice.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 90 04:32:43 GMT
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In article <2348@key.COM> jbr@key.com () writes:
>I have just put together the setup OzTeX -> Freedom of Press Light ->
>DeskWriter (with driver version 2).  I printed the OzTeX manual (whose
>DVI file came with OzTeX 1.3) with OzTeX without any changes (it assumed
>a default paper size of A4).  I ran the resulting postscript file into
>Freedom of Press Light 3.0 and output to the DeskWriter which contained
>8 1/2" x 11" paper.  Things looked reasonably good except that the printing
>started less than 1/8 " from the top of the paper.
>
>This greatly surprised me since the DeskWriter Owner's manual specifies
>the imageable area for a U.S. letter sized page to be 8" x 10.16".  I
>believe it leaves equal space at the top and bottom, so it shouldn't
>have been able to print within the top 0.42" of the page.  The imageable
>area for an A4 sized page leaves an even greater top margin.
>
>I called HP's tech support and asked how this could happen and all they
>could suggest is that somehow a "suppress perforation skip" command
>was being issued.  According to this representative, HP does not offer
>a programmer's manual for the DeskWriter.
>
>I have not yet called Freedom of Press' publisher.
>
>Can anyone guess how this was accomplished?  Does Freedom of Press use
>the DeskWriter driver or does it bypass it?  Is it possible to make other
>programs (e.g., Word) print closer to the top of the page?
>
>-- Jeff
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>jbr@amdahl.key.com
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Jeff,
   I believe that FOP 3.0 has a bug in one of the PS init files which can
be fixed by correcting it. Contact FOP's publisher.
                               Jack Howarth