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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Stretched text in Dataproducts LZR1260
Keywords: PostScript, Windows 3.0, driver
Message-ID: <1991May27.045043.17528@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 27 May 91 04:50:43 GMT
References: <775@mlacus.oz>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology
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>We have a DataProducts LZR1260 PostScript printer that appears to
>print correctly from XyWrite Plus and from Quattro.  Anything printed
>from a Windows 3.0 application, e.g. Write, CorelDRAW, Paintbrush, WinWord
>etc is stretched vertically.
>
>Has anyone else struck this problem?  Is the original Win 3.0 PSCRIPT.DRV
>driver faulty?
>
>Is the printer (this unit only) faulty -- it was mainly used in the HP
>LaserJet+ emulation mode before, where we used to load it with soft fonts.
>They could be used by only one print job--the next job would just not see
>the soft fonts.

It's a Postscript interpreter bug in the 1260. I first encountered it
on our 1260 printing PS files from Framemaker and other WP programs.
Also the output of dvips. The problem is that the interpreter reads the
%%BoundingBox line and sees US letter dimensions, which tickles the
bug.

The fix depends on the program. For dvips I simply used a4 mode. For
Framemaker you specify a4 dimensions. For pregenerated PS output, I
removed the %%BoundingBox lines.