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- From: pink@Rosie.UH.EDU (Pink is Slack)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: LW Driver: Sys 6: Upside down text
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 23:16:18 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston
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- Message-ID: <1isv42INN288@menudo.uh.edu>
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- Hi-
- I'm working on an application that is near the end of a long beta cycle.
- It needs to ship soon, and I've discovered a really weird bug. It seems
- to be a bug in the Laserwriter driver version 5.2 and 7.0 when running under
- system 6. What happens is the app creates its' report, displays the PICT
- to the screen and give s the user the oppertunity to print it. It looks fine on
- the screen but when the page comes out of the printer, sometimes, some of the
- text is upside-down and backwards. IT seems to only happen in certain
- "windows" of the report, so I suspect it is due to some scaling weirdness.
- All of the text is being placed using StdText... but a single character at
- a time. When different scaling options are chosen or the text is placed
- as a string, the problem goes away. Because of the nature of these reports
- forcing the text to be placed as a string can't be done.
-
- The characters in these reports are unusually tall for their height. The
- scaling is done using factors of denom and numer sent to StdText, and
- once again, the text comes out fine when sent to the screen or a plotter.
-
- Anyone know of a bug in the Laserwriter drivers that could cause this?
- Am I pulling a stupid programmer trick? Heard of this before? I'm
- perplexed!
-
- Any clues would be greatly appreciated-- posted here or sent to:
- jay@wst.com
-
-
- Thanks!
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