Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!bbn!levin
From: levin@bbn.COM (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Chooser Strangeness
Keywords: features and bugs, laserwriter, imagewriter
Message-ID: <5816@cc5.bbn.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 88 19:46:23 GMT
References: <2470@im4u.UUCP> <696@entropy.ms.washington.edu> <888@suvax1.UUCP>
Reply-To: levin@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Joel B Levin)
Organization: BBN Communications Corporation
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In article <888@suvax1.UUCP> spector@suvax1.UUCP (Mitchell Spector) writes:
:In article <696@entropy.ms.washington.edu>, king@entropy.ms.washington.edu
:(Jim King) writes:
:
:> In article <2470@im4u.UUCP>, suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler) writes:
:
:> > I'd talked to an Apple engineer about how the Chooser refuses to
:> > turn on AppleTalk after the ImageWriter has been used without a
:> > reboot in between....
:
:   Here's another (perhaps more common) reason for needing to switch from
:ImageWriter to LaserWriter after the ImageWriter has been used, without
:having to reboot.
:
:   A lot of people use Microsoft Word to write a document for printing on a
:LaserWriter, although the computer they're working on has only an ImageWriter.
:If you use the Chooser to select LaserWriter, Word will then format your
:document on the screen as it will appear when printed on the LaserWriter.
: ...

As far as I can determine, the major difference is the width of the
page.  This is certainly so for MacDraw and other applications that
can print to either device.

The quick/dirty solution to your problem: leave it set to ImageWriter,
and use Tall Adjusted (I know, this is tricky in Word 3+).  The lines
and pages will now be broken at the same place as they would for the
Laserwriter at 100%, and no Choosing is necessary.

	/JBL

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