I recently discovered a solution for printing from PgS on OS X to a network or shared printer without using the system printing. I don't know if this works for all cases, but it resolved what I was seeing. The interface varies between versions of OS X, this is for 10.8.

When printing from PgS (not using the system print, so I can control things like the print screens) a print job gets queued for the appropriate printer but it is put on 'hold' and just sits there. Open the printers queue and for the job that isn't printing observe that at the end of its row there is a circle with a "reset" arrow in it. Clicking this caused a dialog to appear asking me for authentication.

This authentication step appears to be the sticking point. I'm not sure why it is happening as no other printing requires authentication. The credentials it wants are not for OS X, but for the shared printer. Mine is connected to a Synology NAS and I used an account on it to authenticate successfully -- strangely enough the authentication dialog had this information pre filled so all I actually did was click OK.

At that point the job cleared the local queue and went to the network printer. And printed!

Tim Doty
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I'm finishing up a book for printing at Lulu. Actually, the book is old (last revised 1999), but I'm adding illustrations to it. And herein lies my problem. The art is grey scale and, searching lulu for information, it appears that they are using something like 60-80 lpi, but certainly not much more than 100 lpi -- which is simply not enough to capture detail. Even my personal printer can manage 180 lpi so I'm not sure what gives.

The thing is, none of this information is official. Lulu refuses to say anything about the printers they use, their specs or anything. I've put in a support request and haven't heard anything from them. (It looks like they only provide support for paid-support accounts.) What they *have* said (on their site) is nonsensical. For example, they tell people to save grey scale images as RGB to avoid the "pixelation" from low lpi. Users who have a clue have suggested that line art be submitted as high resolution black and white, but that is only suitable for pen-and-ink line drawings.

I know some people here have used Lulu and I'm hoping that someone has specific experience they can share. I've tested converting an image to black and white. This loses a lot of detail, of course, but for the one image would be acceptable if I have to go that route. Even there, Lulu says they want artwork at 300 dpi and it is always possible they'll just scale everything to that resolution, even if I provide higher resolution images. At 600 dpi the black and white has acceptably minimal jagged edges on slanted lines, 300 dpi just doesn't look good.

So, any information to be shared? Advice to give? Incidentally, I am deliberately doing grey scale -- color is not what I want for this.

Tim Doty
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Tanks your answer helped a lot. The funny thing is that I used to know how to do that 10 -15 years ago, but had forgotten.

Al

--- In PageStreamSupport@yahoogroups.com, Tim Doty <thoromyr@...> wrote:
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> There is no way to configure the text box for that, but it should be pretty easy to accomplish after import. PageStream allows searching and replacing codes, so you could replace \t (tab) with the code for a column break (possibly \c, I don't recall).
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> Tim Doty
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> On Feb 28, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Al <linrik@...> wrote:
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> > I import a text file that is tab delimited into many text boxes that are linked together in a Pagestream document. The problem is that the size (number of text characters) of the "chunk of text" that is tab delimited varies all over the place. Is there any way to set-up/configure a text box that will only allow for one and only one "chunk of text" within it? In other words, every time there is a tab, I want the text to jump to the next text box. This would save considerably on my editing time.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Al
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