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odd behavior when printing in E/L 1.99q
I'm experiencing some weirdness when printing files in Executor. I'm
running Executor/Linux on a FreeBSD machine with Linux emulation
software, but I doubt that's the problem.
I've installed one of those "magic filter" gizmos that automagically
determine what type of file is being printed, and invoke a proper filter
to process it. This is because my printer (Epson Stylus Color) is not a
PostScript printer, but I want to be able to type "lpr foo.ps" or choose
the PRINT command in an application (i.e. Netscape) and have the file
print out properly.
When I print from Executor, however, here's what happens. I only have
three applications I can print from.
First I tried printing some files in Tex-Edit. I tried both the "Welcome
to Tex-Edit", the "Tex-Edit Revision History", and a text file of my own
making. All files printed OK, but only used about the top 2/3 of the
page (8.5x11). The "Welcome to Tex-Edit" has both color and B/W
graphics; the color ones did not print at all, whereas the B/W ones did.
I guess Executor doesn't support color graphics printing?
I then tried printing the "Compact Pro User's Guide" file, which is one
of those "self-contained document" applications. It printed OK, used up
all the page, but the bottom of the page was always cut off -- that is,
the last line on the page had only the top 2/3 or so printed. This looks
like a problem with Ghostscript not printing the entire page area?
Printing from BBEdit Lite 3.x does not work at all. It appears to
generate improper PostScript, since I can't even run the file through
ghostscript or ghostview by hand.
My copy of MS Word, etc. has not arrived yet, so unfortunately I don't have
any *real* apps to test with this.
Is anyone else having these problems? Can anyone suggest a solution?
Please let me know. Thanks!
Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212
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