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From: mic@lapis.berkeley.edu (Michel Bruneau)
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Subject: Word Perfect and Laserjet: I don't understand!
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 17:51:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 17:51:43 1987
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Well, I have been using Word PErfect for quite a time (with satisfaction)
on good old Okidata dot matrix correspondance quality printer, but
seeing the nice presentation of my UNIX friends on troff, I was tempted
to try to use THE HP Laserjet to improve the look of my documents.
Well, frustrations were just starting.  First of all, how come on the 
Laserjet, Printer NUmber, fonts, spacing, and all that crap are clusted
together while using Word Perfect??? To change to a special font you
have to change printer definition??? DO I read correctly.  ALSO, 
I appeared that there was only one font available with this $4000 toy
when I played with it (Roman 10cpi, not even 12cpi!!!).  Finally, it
was impossible to use the IBM extended character set (upper 128 ASCII)
that I used a lot in my papers.  Oh, and I forget, I haven't found a
way yet to get boxes (I guess that goes along the upper 128 ASCII).

THE point!? Well, I didn't buy the laser printer, and I do not have 
access to the manuals if any.  But assuming that Word PErfect is rigth
in their presentation of supported printers, what is going on here/???
I am in the very deep fog (appropriate in this city).

Why is such an expenssive machine so shortsigthed (or is it me????).

My feeling is that I do not understand the fundamentals of laser printers,
which is very disappointing as I thougth these machines were to make
out life easier along with nicer presentation.  

In the meantime, I will stick to my Okidata as I can get many cpi, lpi, fonts         
and extended ascii, and more....   

Any enligthning comment will be gladly read!