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From: adam@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk (Adam Curtin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Need help with Acorn DTP / PostScript printing
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.105607.6100@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk>
Date: 20 Jun 91 10:56:07 GMT
Reply-To: adam@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk (Adam Curtin)
Organization: British Aerospace (Dynamics), Stevenage
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I've been trying without success to print a document from Acorn DTP.
The document consists mainly of Trinity.Medium text, and a couple of Draw images
There's a bit of Trinity.Bold and Trinity.Medium.Oblique for headlines and
captions.
I print via the PostScript printer driver with output redirected to a file, and
then by magic get the file to a Sun SPARCstation 2, where I try to print the
document via NeWSPrint to a SPARCprinter.
[This is similar to a "Laser Direct" setup on the Archimedes - the PostScript
imaging is done on the host which has a high-speed link to a basic laser
printer]

Now, when I print (or preview) the document, it's complete junk.
The characters themselves are distorted, which at a glance appears to be down
to font-selection lines like "/Trinity.Medium 533 1066 Fn". All of the font selections seem to be like this, distorting the fonts to be twice as wide as they
are high.

At the word level, things are really strange. There seem to be word gaps
between letters and letter gaps between words! So the effect on a line is that
the words are R  e  a  l  l  yS  p  r  e  a  dO  u  t with many words
overlapping.

The headline never makes it onto the page at all, for some reason, but to my
joy the Draw images are represented perfectly!

I haven't got a clue what's going wrong. I'm sure I'm not doing anything
unusual, so I thought that before I dusted the red Adobe book off and prepared
for my PostScript headache, I'd ask if you folk had experienced similar
problems ...

Thanks,
Adam
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