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- From: ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: GEM.. what needs to be fixed, and soon!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep04.101048.21814@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 10:10:48 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.100551.4716@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> <4406@equinox.unr.edu>
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- In article <4406@equinox.unr.edu> chan@pyramid.unr.edu (Kaho Chan) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug27.100551.4716@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
- >>
- [Much deleted]
- >
- >>
- >>(2) Printer drivers have to be assigned at INSTALL time or by editing a
- >> file.
- >>
- >> This is a MAJOR failing. Call the system user friendly? Even the
- >>first version of MS Windows had the capability to select the type of printer
- >>driver from a menu at any time.
- >
- > Why is this a major flaw? Printer drivers are software.... the
- > people who wrote those don't have every printer in mind... Just
- > because it's Epson (or other) compatible, doesn't mean that it's
- > 100% workable on your XYZ (non-EPSON) type printer...
- >
- > I think that you are referring to being able to change the
- > printer driver through Windows... Well, as far as I know (I hope),
- > GEM permits (through the Control Panel) the user to choose options
- > fitting his printer, BUT, it is not the printer driver (type) you
- > are reffering to...
- > Software-wise, you choose the printer driver through the program...
- > I may be wrong on this...
-
- I believe you are.. at least in the case of the Mac, and I think MS-Windows
- is the same. The application gives the "OS" a description of the document to
- be printed. The "OS" then gives this to the printer driver which does the
- conversion to a format the printer understands and sends it to the printer
- via whatever means the user has selected. ie. It could be a postscript
- printer being controlled by a card in the VMEbus slot at the back of a TT.
- It doesn't matter too hoots to the application where the data's going to.
-
- This is in fact what GDOS does too. When you don't have GDOS loaded and
- print something from, say, the desktop the program has to do all the hard
- work for itself.
-
- [Much more deleted]
- > __________ _______
- > / ________() Kaho Chan(man) / /
- > / /\______ University of /* /
- > / /_/_____() Nevada, Reno \ /
- > /_________ Internet: \ /
- > L________() chan@cs.unr.edu \/^
-
- Steve
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