Deron,

Printing has been interesting. I thought I'd give 8b a try since you
wrote about posting apatch to the display library eventually.

System 1: IBM Aptiva, 192 megs ram, Win 98; Canon 8000 inkjet and
Espcon Stylus Color. Printing in draft mode to Canon sized the page
correctly, but poor print quality, of course. Printing in a higher
quality mode to the Canon prints a beautiful copy, but it's at 25% of
actual size in the upper left quadrant of the page. Trying to manually
set it to 200% didn't change this. This is with the Canon supplied
printer driver. I can't find any newer driver at the Canon site.
Printing to the Epson Stylus Color with this system just spit out
blank pages, no matter what settings I use. This is using the driver
supplied with Win 98.

System 2: Clone running at 166 with 64 megs ram and Win 98; with TI
Micro Pro 600 Postscript laser. Printing a single page with text in a
text box at the top of the page and one scanned graphic has three
notable points:
Text in Book Antiqua Bold prints in what looks like Courier with
some really odd kerning. Text changed to Felix Titling printed out
correctly.
The scanned graphic (in PCX format) printed upside down compared to
the position it showed on the screen. When I turned it upside down on
the screen, it printed rightside up on paper, but also flipped
horizontally.
Both prints took a lot longer to intialize compared to printing
from Word 2000 or the other Windoze apps we use.

System 3: Clone running at 500 with 128 megs RAM and Win 98; Canon 2000
USB printer.

The previous PCX graphic mentioned above won't print at all at any
setting. A different JPEG scan won't print at all. Graphics created with
the PgS drawing tools print fine, including various gradient fills in
color. This one asked me to reinstall the Canon 2000 driver and
BJRaster files. But a reboot took care of that without any reinstall.

All systems: Stroked text doesn't show up stroked. I didn't try it
with any postscript fonts on the laser, though. Shadowed text works OK.
But my headline was supposed to show up as stroked white filled text
with a shadow. Without the stroke, it looks more like an embossed
effect.

Is this the sort of thing the display library will take care of?

If you want any files, let me know.

I still prefer Amiga.

Paul Zager

Proud Owner of Frankenthousand, the monster A1000
'030@50MHz, 2 megs chip/32 megs fast, 2 hard drives,
4xSCSI CD-ROM, SyJet, 56kHayes, 17" flicker free display

"Bride of Frankenthousand" A4000, Phase5 MarkIII '060@50;
2 megs chip/140 megs fast, PicassoIV, HD floppy, 4.5 gig SCSI3,
4.3 gig IDE, Concierto, 32x CD-ROM, GVP-I/O, GVP-4008SCSI, 17" KDS-VS7.
. .
all in a big black Toaster Oven case to compliment Frankenthousand