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- Subject: Re: Soft-Logik: PageStream 3.0i Info please..?!
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- From: oj@code1.DIALix.oz.au (Owen James)
- Message-ID: <oj.0aig@code1.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 96 18:12:00 EST
- Organization: Code One Computer Services
-
- Michael Loader (76711.2617@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
- : oj@code1.DIALix.oz.au (Owen James) wrote:
- :
- : >this area. No matter how much I tweak the orientation setting, Pagestream
- : >does not want to print as you would expect on an envelope to my Postscript
- : >laser.
- :
- : I create a #10 envelope with new document, set printing prefs to Comm10
- : landscape, put my envelope into the printer in the direction recommended
- : by HP, the printer manufacturer, and print. It works perfectly for me
- : everytime on my PostScript printer.
-
- Well that may be fine for #10 envelopes, but for other standard sizes, this
- isn't the case.
-
- For example, select a DL-sized envelope as the page size and type an
- address into the lower left-hand portion.
-
- In the print preferences section, you'll notice there's no page size
- available for DL. There's Comm10, A4, and a few others, but not many at all
- when you have elected to use a Postscript output device. Even IFF-ILBM has a
- Custom option to set whatever size you please, but not for Postscript.
-
- Selecting A4 here, with landscape orientation, and putting the envelope into
- the printer according to the manufacturer's specification results in an
- envelope with around a centimetre of the left-hand part of the address on
- the extreme right of the envelope, and the rest well and truly off the page.
- Selecting sizes other than A4 here, such as Comm10 etc., produces mixed
- results--some result in a blank envelope (presumably the address was printed
- somewhere out of the page bounds) and the address printed in other
- unsuitable areas of the envelope.
-
- In short, unless I can specify an exact media size, in this case a DL
- envelope, or at the very least have more flexible control in the placement
- of the output onto the media such as ProPage offers, Pagestream is
- unsuitable for printing to quite a lot of different media sizes--it is
- restricted to the half-dozen or so pre-defined sizes in the print
- preferences requester if using Postscript.
-
- Ideally, for starters there needs to be a Custom option in the page size
- popup in Print Preferences for Postscript printers. This is essential so
- Pagestream won't try to print beyond the physical page boundaries. Secondly,
- there needs to be better control for placement of the printed page onto the
- physical page. Sometimes I may wish to output a business card image onto an
- A4 page along the left hand edge to allow room for handwritten notes or for
- doing further print passes onto the same page, or in the case of doing
- run-outs to bromide I might prefer to print in only a small area at the
- start of the roll to save costs.
-
- Please, please consider doing some more work in this area. ProPage has been
- doing it for years...
-
- Cheers,
-
- OJ.
-
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