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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Editing a Macintosh File (never the
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Date: 27 Apr 89 17:11:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Apr 27 12:11:00 1989



>Little did I expect, they had updated their software.  Operating system 6.X
>and about the 40th beta release of Word 4.0.  

>To those of you who don't own Mac's, it may surprise you to know one of these
>updates made it impossible for them to print my file.  They could print
>something that looked a bit like my file.  What I eventually came away with
>was only slightly mutilated.  But it took a lot of work just to get that.

I don't understand how an OPERATING SYSTEM can change the position
of letters on a page. It is certainly true that going to a new
version of a WORD PROCESSOR might do so. But don't word processors
simply tell the printer where on the page to place a certain letter?
I don't see how it would be possible to write any sort of reasonable
page generating program if it didn't know EXACTLY where a letter,
of a certain size, would appear when printed. 

Are you saying that the word processor can't tell the printer
where to put letters on the page? Presumably it sends Postscript
to a Postscript printer. - are you saying that the OS CHANGES that
postscript?

Doug McDonald