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From: edmoy@opal.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Bug in LaserWriter Driver/LaserPrep 4.0
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Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 13:14:31 EDT
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I am writing a Unix program to convert the Macintosh PostScript file created
by the Cntrl-K trick in the LaserWriter print dialog box to a form useable
by the lpr/TranScript line printer software on Unix.  This program (which I'll
post when it is done), changes the normally permanently memory resident code
produced by LaserPrep into temporary resident code and does font coordinating
as required.  To do all this and not require all users to have exactly the
same version of the LaserWriter driver/LaserPrep, the program has to figure
out what version is being used, and munch on the file as appropriate.

Anyways, I was testing the program with version 3.0, 3.1 and 4.0 and noticed
that in my test case, 3.0 and 3.1 both do the font Chicago Italic correctly
but 4.0 doesn't (the letters are not slanted, but the character spacing seems
about right).  I tried my test with a LaserWriter directly connected to my
Mac and using 4.0 and the same problem occurred (so it's not my program).
The test case was a MacDraw file with fonts, boxes, lines, curves, etc.

Anyone else have the same problem?

Edward Moy
Academic Computing Services
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

edmoy@opal.Berkeley.EDU
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P.S.  Does anyone know if there are versions between 3.1 and 4.0?