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- From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Soft-Logik: PageStream 3.0i Info please..?!
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 18:20:06 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- Raoul [in an article appearing on TALK.RELIGION.MISC] wrote:
-
- >In article <150805@cup.portal.com>,
- >Kevin W Davidson <soft-logik@cup.portal.com> wrote:
- >| Owen James [in an article appearing on TALK.RELIGION.MISC] wrote:
- >|
- >| >Is anything being done to improve the number of output page sizes available
- ,
- >| >and better control of printing on output pages?
- >| >
- >| >What I'm referring to, if I want to print an address on an envelope, I have
- >| >no way of telling PageStream the maximum size of the media I'm printing on,
- >| >nor the orientation of it, nor how to align the text to it.
- >|
- >| I don't quite follow you here. On the NEW DOCUMENT requester, there is a
- >| Page Size Gadget on which you may select CUSTOM. When you do that, you
- >| may type in the exact size of your media--whatever you want.
- >
- >See, you may think so, but it doesn't work. I tried it... I tried it a LOT,
- >and it never really got its programming around the concept. I
- >reported it to Soft-Logik and they tried a couple of helpful
- >hints, but none of those worked either. Pagestream just DOES NOT
- >LIKE ENVELOPS in a HP Deskjet. You can't change the page size
- >in the print requestor, I don't care HOW much you try... all you
- >are stuck with are the ones listed in the cycle gadget... and
- >landscape mode really doesn't do much better... you just get to
- >print funky things almost sideways.
- >
- >
- >| The old PageStream 2.2 did not allow direct control of Landscape vs
- >| Portrait (the program selected automatically).
- >
- >The old PageStream 2.2 handled envelopes like a champ... you could
- >set the paper size to whatever you liked, you could print 8 ways to
- >sunday.
-
- That's remarkable, because I could never print an envelope on MY
- DeskJet with PageStream 2. It would eject the envelope before
- printing ;-)
-
- It looks to me like we have the same problem as PageStream 2. When
- you pre-feed the envelope into the printer, PageStream send an
- initialization sequence to the printer which ejects the envelope.
- It really has nothing to do with setting the page size, it has to
- do with how PageStream interacts with the special form feeding
- feeding mechanism on the DeskJet for envelopes.
-
- But I didn't have any problems with setting odd page sizes, just
- be sure you set it to "CUSTOM" first. Of course, I'm running a
- later version than you are.
-
- Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
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