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From: planting@colby.WISC.EDU ( W. Harry Plantinga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Chooser Strangeness (really printing options ugliness)
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Date: 5 Jan 88 02:05:56 GMT
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Reply-To: planting@colby.WISC.EDU ( W. Harry Plantinga)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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Keywords: features and bugs

>> Chooser does not re-initialize the serial port;
>> that's only done at reboot or startup time.... Apple
>> intended for you to use only one kind of device on the serial
>> port in between reboots.
>> 
>> Hey, Apple, this is a bug!  I have a modem on the modem port,
>> an IW on the printer port, and I like to be able to hop into
>> LW to create PostScript files for uploading.  Any chance of a fix?

>Why not have a "printer driver" accessible from the Chooser (like the
>Glue software) that if chosen would save a Postscript file instead of
>really printing.  

There's another thing about printing that really annoys me.  There are
options that can be chosen in the print dialog that affect the way the
page looks.  For example, in Word, selecting "fractional widths" makes
more text fit on each line.  However, having fractional widths
selected also makes the program run many times slower.  So what do I
have to do to preview a paper that is to be printed with fractional
widths?  Select print, select fractional widths, and hit "ok."  Then
try to cancel the printing before anything gets printed.

This is ridiculous.  I have to start a printing and abort it just to
see how the paper will look printed out?