Hello again,

While I was trying to get printer output the page I was printing was
composed on the CD cover selection layout (or paper size, or whatever
it was called). I didn't notice any problem until I actually got a
print out, but the aspect ratio of the page displayed on the screen is
WAY OFF. When I was putting text on it I thought the layout was for
two "pages" that get folded to form a CD size, but when printed I
noticed the rulers that it was supposed to be a single square page!
(which of course makes sense that it sould be)

So on my screen (GVP Spectrum CGX4 800x600) a square looks twice as
wide as it is high.

I looked around the prefs for some aspect ratio adjust and didn't find
any. It would have been smart to see what a 8 1/2" x 11" layout looked
like to confirm the wierd display, but I didn't.

All of the tools buttons are nice squares. Everything else looks
normal on the screen...

What am I missing this time?

Thanks,
-Mike
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CT Engineering fax: 440-483-7098

>So on my screen (GVP Spectrum CGX4 800x600) a square looks twice as
>wide as it is high.

>I looked around the prefs for some aspect ratio adjust and didn't find
>any. It would have been smart to see what a 8 1/2" x 11" layout looked
>like to confirm the wierd display, but I didn't.

Look under the first menu, System Prefs, Screen. I'm running at 800 x
600 also, but with P IV and Picasso 96. My prefs are set at x=63 and
y=64. This gives me one inch = one inch on the vertical and horizontal
rulers if I'm at "Actual Size" magnification.

>All of the tools buttons are nice squares. Everything else looks
>normal on the screen...

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Hello shermane@ct.picker.com

On 29-Jun-00, shermane@ct.picker.com wrote:
> All of the tools buttons are nice squares. Everything else looks
> normal on the screen...
>
> What am I missing this time?

If I will be you, I'll disable 'DoubleSided' [and facing pages] in
MasterPageSetup ;)

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Hello shermane on 29-Jun-00 14:18:00 you said
>Hello again,

>While I was trying to get printer output the page I was printing was
>composed on the CD cover selection layout (or paper size, or whatever
>it was called). I didn't notice any problem until I actually got a
>print out, but the aspect ratio of the page displayed on the screen is
>WAY OFF. When I was putting text on it I thought the layout was for
>two "pages" that get folded to form a CD size, but when printed I
>noticed the rulers that it was supposed to be a single square page!
>(which of course makes sense that it sould be)

>So on my screen (GVP Spectrum CGX4 800x600) a square looks twice as
>wide as it is high.

>I looked around the prefs for some aspect ratio adjust and didn't find
>any. It would have been smart to see what a 8 1/2" x 11" layout looked
>like to confirm the wierd display, but I didn't.

>All of the tools buttons are nice squares. Everything else looks
>normal on the screen...

>What am I missing this time?

Somewhere in the help file it tells you how to set up the screen properly. It
involves measuring the physical size of the screen in inches and doing a
calculation depending on your screen mode (800x600 or whatever) to arrive at a
DPI figure to put into the screen prefs boxes.

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HP Laserjet 4P, Stylus 600, 21" ADI Microscan 6G+,
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shermane@ct.picker.com wrote:

> it was called). I didn't notice any problem until I actually got a
> print out, but the aspect ratio of the page displayed on the screen is
> WAY OFF. When I was putting text on it I thought the layout was for

you can tweak the on screen aspect ratio by playing with

SYSTEM PREF -> SCREEN -> display DPI

mine is 180 x 180

On or about 07:43 AM 7/3/00 a carrier pigeon from Tony Cooke delivered:

>Somewhere in the help file it tells you how to set up the screen properly. It
>involves measuring the physical size of the screen in inches and doing a
>calculation depending on your screen mode (800x600 or whatever) to arrive at a
>DPI figure to put into the screen prefs boxes.

I seem to recall that I cheated on the calculations.

I just used the "rulers" to produce a 2"x2" box (regardless of
what it looked like on screen), centered on a page.

Print.

Cut out the paper box, set PageStream for 100% view, centered the
image box in the monitor, and then tweaked the DPI figures until the image
matched the cut-out when it was held over the screen.

If the image is shorter than the paper, increase the DPI in that
dimension.
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