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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Word Perfect and Laserjet: I don't understand!
Message-ID: <1647@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 13:05:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 17 13:05:07 1987
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Organization: Kontron Electronics, Mt. View, CA
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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????).

In fact, the limitation isn't the LaserJet, but WordPerfect.  The LaserJet
is far less versatile than the Apple LaserWriter (or any other PostScript
printer), but only one choice of font and size is a deficiency of 
software.

Clayton E. Cramer