Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!tikal!phred!jeffp From: jeffp@phred.UUCP (Jeff Parke) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Does LaserWriter 3.1 work? Message-ID: <598@phred.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Aug-86 00:35:46 EDT Article-I.D.: phred.598 Posted: Wed Aug 20 00:35:46 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Aug-86 20:17:41 EDT Reply-To: jeffp@phred.UUCP (Jeff Parke) Organization: Physio Control Corp., Seattle, WA Lines: 9 Keywords: Kaputt w/MacDraw I remember seeing many comments about problems with LaserWriter 3.1 back in June. Now we have finally decided to try it out on our Laserwriter, with very poor results. Using MacDraw on a Mac+ System3.2/Finder5.3, we couldn't get bold or italic print in Helvetica (with font subst. & smoothing off). Also, a plot from a BASIC program simply kept giving bombs. Can anyone shed some light on this? { seismo!hpscda!hplsla ..OR.. ihnp4!sun!fluke } !tikal!phred!jeffp {Jeff Parke}