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From: dick@cca.ucsf.edu (Dick Karpinski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript on Computer Displays
Summary: Problem twixt display and paper.
Message-ID: <3429@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 00:31:59 GMT
Reply-To: dick@ccnext.ucsf.edu (Dick Karpinski)
Organization: University of California, San Francisco
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I'm an ardent supporter of PostScript, so I was delighted to be able
to get a NeXT on my desk with ps for both the screen and for the
attached laser printer.  I'm also delighted to have such good access
to a high quality printer.  These are part of the reason that I was
flabberghasted to discover the following problem:

When I look at shell scripts on my screen, all is clear, but when I
print one from the Terminal application, the back-quotes come out on
paper tilted the wrong way!  This completely changes the meaning of
a shell script.  I'm using Courier Medium 14.0 pt. and I'm still
enchanted that the cut and paste facility permitted me to grab that
detail right off the font panel for Terminal.

Despite the fact that I got the software from NeXT, I suspect that
this is an oversight by Adobe folks.  Let me know where, besides
here, I ought to be reporting such problems.

Dick