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On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, RMS Communications wrote:
>>> What I meant was: I write a line of text, than I go in the line/fill
>>> requester and select for example 1 pt black line and fill red. When
>>> printing this page the above guru comes up. I tried several
>>> typefaces just to make sure it is not the typeface but the guru is
>>> still there.
>>
>> I just set the expression "This is experimental Text" in 24-point
>> Times Bold Italic; In Text/Line and Fill I set Stroked 1 pt black
>> and Filled Red, and printed the page in color to a Hewlett-Packard
>> 550C DeskJet printer. It printed normally -- no hangup, no guru.
>>
>> This was using PageStream 4.0r5 in an Amiga 2000HD with the GVP
>> G-Force 030 accelerator at 40 MHz; 2M chip memory and 20M fast RAM;
>> 1084S Commodore monitor with standard monitor drivers; using Amiga
>> OS 3.1. Is this materially different from your system?
>Yes, I have PGS 4.0r5 on an A4000 PPC 604/233 with 128 MB fastram
>and OS 3.5 and are printing to a HP Laserjet 5000 PS printer.
OK. The problem was not in the A4000, the PPC 604 or in Amiga OS 3.5.
It's in PageStream 4's PostScript engine. Although the Outline style
can be output to non-PostScript printers OK, whether using Compugraphic,
PageStream, TrueType or PostScript fonts, any attempt to apply a
stroked style -- via Type/Type Style or Type/Line and Fill or via the
Outline button in the Edit palette will result in a hangup or guru
if it is attempted to output that document to a PostScript printer
or PostScript file.
Until such time as Deron or the Orkin man can find and eradicate that
bug, do this:
Set the desired text as an independent text object (outside any text
frame). Select the text with the pointer tool and select Convert
to Path from the Object menu. Now, using the Object/Line and Fill
requester, set the desired stroke and fill characteristics. Then,
move the text into the desired position in the document. It may now
be safely output as a PostScript file or to a PostScript printer
without danger of hangup or guru.
A possible additional advantage, if this text is set in a non-
standard font and it is the only usage of that font in the document:
the font won't be included in the PostScript file or downloaded to
the PostScript printer -- speeding up things a bit. The text is just a
graphic, now.
--Geoff
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