GXPD 39 - PostScript Color Printing Bug (14-May-96)
Q n my app, I'm creating a page that contains a line of single layer text
shapes, with each word being a different color. The page displays correctly
when it's opened in SimpleText, but shows a bug when it's printed to a
PostScript printer: each line prints with one color instead of each
word being a different color. Any ideas?
A This is a bug in the GX source code. This bug only occurs with single layer
text shapes that have a nil style in their face layer. There is a workaround.
Do this anytime you do a one layer text face except for italicizing text: this
workaround slows down the italic drawing but speeds up all other cases.
Create a 'generic' style object (via GXNewStyle) to replace the nil style. Set
the text size to 1.0 (important) and pen=0 in the style. The other fields are
irrelevant to this fix. The main points are text and pen size. Set your style
to this 'generic' style and the problem will disappear.
