Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!deccrl!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mucs!m1!pavern From: pavern@uk.ac.man.cs (Nigel Paver (SF ra)) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: SPARCprinter problems Message-ID: Date: 5 Apr 91 13:20:18 GMT Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Distribution: comp.windows.open-look Organization: University of Manchester, UK Lines: 55 We currently have a SPARCprinter on loan for a week to evaluate it before parting with any money. During this period we have had problems printing diagrams in latex. We have diagrams generated by framemaker, fig and other programs, that print alright when printed on their own, but when included in latex they get corrupted. (I have tried using the fixframe on the framemaker documents before importing them, but his made no difference). All the documents have been successfully printed on our other standard laser writers. Another possibly related problem is that we have had framemaker figures that print when imported in latex, but only when there was 1 document page per a4 sheet. 2 pages per A4 sheet corrupted the the diagrams (-x 2). Some other questions I like to ask: 1. I have a postscript file that printed alright on a laser writer with the following line in it: /Times findfont 10 scalefont setfont when I printed it on the SPARCprinter a message came out after the file saying: Times not found, using Courier if I look through the demo program font browser in openwindows it seems to have all the Times fonts/sizes I could ever want!. Why does it complain? 2. How often do I have to use the fixframe utility?. I have tried a few framemaker documents and they have come out alright without using fixframe. 3. How to I change the default resolution on the SPARCprinter? 300dpi/400dpi ? (sun did not leave us any manuals!) I would also be interested to hear from people who have used this printer and their opinions on its reliability/compatability. I have found that for graphics the SPARCprinter set up is much faster than our old Laser writers (35 seconds cf. 15+minutes). other info: Host SPARCstation IPC, 36 Mbyte, SunOS.4.1.1 openwindows 2.0 Thanks --Nigel -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigel Paver. AMULET Group, Room 2.46 Computer Science. Building, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. Janet: pavern@uk.ac.man.cs Tel: +44-61-275-6177 UUCP: ...!uunet!mcsun!ukc!man.cs!pavern Fax: +44-61-275-6280 Inet: pavern%cs.man.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Int: 6177 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------