Hello All,

Can someone using version 4.0 check this out:

Create a style tag that has a modified text style.
For example change the shadow from its default of 50% black
Is this saved with the style?

I'm using 3.4b9 and it still won't save here. If I want a modified shadow I
have to manually apply that to the text in question.

When PGS loads it displays the default toolbar, even though I've customized
it. If I open prefs and click use, without changing anything, then my
customized toolbar comes out. Is this a 3.4b9 thing?

Can someone tell me if there is a ppd file that has margins that are close
to a Canon BJ200 printer? They are left 7mm, right 7mm, top 3.5mm and bottom
12 mm. The reason I ask is that I have turboprint and for postscript it
tells me to use a certain ppd file, but I don't get full page utilization
because its margins must be larger. If there isn't a ppd, maybe someone can
point to where a ppd could be edited to match the printer I have?

Thanks,

Kind regards
--
Peter Coates
Waterloo, Ontario
*CANADA*
--
*A3000 OS3.1 Cybervision Warpengine 040 40 Mb Ram*

On 08-Jun-00, P. Coates wrote:

> Create a style tag that has a modified text style.
> For example change the shadow from its default of 50% black
> Is this saved with the style?

Not in the version running here, though I admit I'm running way behind on
the updates.

[= Randall =]

--
Randall Blank
home@randallblank.com

On 10-Jun-00, Randall Blank wrote:

>On 08-Jun-00, P. Coates wrote:

>> Create a style tag that has a modified text style.
>> For example change the shadow from its default of 50% black
>> Is this saved with the style?

>Not in the version running here, though I admit I'm running way behind
>on the updates.

As of PgS4.0r7, a change made to a style does not persist beyond the
current column (or succession of linked columns). In other words,
if you have 4 pages of linked columns, and change the shadow style
on Page 1, that style will persist throughout that text to any
newly-applied style, but not to any text which previously had another shadow
style applied, or to any point beyond that change.

I tried this experiment: I applied a 30% black shadow to text on
Page 2 and green shadow to a letter on page 1. Then I deleted text on
page 1 until the black-shadowed text showed up on Page 1. I then
highlighted the black-shadowed text with the idea of changing
the shadow style. Instead, I just froze the machine (this happened
twice). Moral: don't get too *@#?! fancy!

--Geoff

--
ggass@teleport.com Geoffrey A. Gass Foulecourt Press
PgS4.0r7 Amiga OS 3.1 A2000/GVP G-Force030

>Create a style tag that has a modified text style.
>For example change the shadow from its default of 50% black
>Is this saved with the style?

No, custom fills are not saved with styletags. Known shortcoming of styles.

>When PGS loads it displays the default toolbar, even though I've customized
>it. If I open prefs and click use, without changing anything, then my
>customized toolbar comes out. Is this a 3.4b9 thing?

Yup, its a 3.4b9 specific bug. Fixed in 4.0.

>Can someone tell me if there is a ppd file that has margins that are close
>to a Canon BJ200 printer? They are left 7mm, right 7mm, top 3.5mm and bottom
>12 mm. The reason I ask is that I have turboprint and for postscript it
>tells me to use a certain ppd file, but I don't get full page utilization
>because its margins must be larger. If there isn't a ppd, maybe someone can
>point to where a ppd could be edited to match the printer I have?

Margins are not used in a PPD file in PageStream when outputing PostScript.
PageStream outputs edge to edge the PostScript output. It is up to the
PostScript RIP to crop it down to the actual printer defaults.

>Thanks,
>
>Kind regards
>--
>Peter Coates
>Waterloo, Ontario
>*CANADA*

Deron Kazmaier
SoftLogik Publishing
listhelp@softlogik.com
http://www.softlogik.com

Hello SoftLogik

On 11-Jun-00, SoftLogik Support wrote:

>> Create a style tag that has a modified text style.
>> For example change the shadow from its default of 50% black
>> Is this saved with the style?

> No, custom fills are not saved with styletags. Known shortcoming of
> styles.

But sometime in the near future?

>> Can someone tell me if there is a ppd file that has margins that are
>> close to a Canon BJ200 printer? They are left 7mm, right 7mm, top 3.5mm
>> and bottom 12 mm. The reason I ask is that I have turboprint and for
>> postscript it tells me to use a certain ppd file, but I don't get full
>> page utilization because its margins must be larger. If there isn't a
>> ppd, maybe someone can point to where a ppd could be edited to match the
>> printer I have?

> Margins are not used in a PPD file in PageStream when outputing
> PostScript. PageStream outputs edge to edge the PostScript output. It is
> up to the PostScript RIP to crop it down to the actual printer defaults.

Sorry, you lost me. What is a postscript RIP, and does turboprint's
postscript options have such a beast?

>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kind regards
>> --
>> Peter Coates
>> Waterloo, Ontario
>> *CANADA*

> Deron Kazmaier
> SoftLogik Publishing
> listhelp@softlogik.com
>http://www.softlogik.com

Regards
--
Peter Coates
Waterloo, Ontario
*CANADA*
--
*A3000 OS3.1 Cybervision Warpengine 040 40 Mb Ram*

On 14-Jun-00, P. Coates wrote:

>
> Sorry, you lost me. What is a postscript RIP, and does turboprint's
> postscript options have such a beast?

A Raster Image Processor is a PostScript interpreter. It is a program
which takes in PostScript code, and outputs bitmaps for a printer.

So, yes, Ghostscript in conjunction with TurboPrint is a RIP.

However, the term RIP is usually applied to very expensive computers
which go in the network between the computer(s) and the printer and run
only this one program. The printer in this case is typically either a
colour photocopier or an ImageSetter (a laser printer that outputs onto
film, from which printing plates can be made).

The Fiery is a well-known make of RIP.

An ordinary desktop PostScript laser printer has its own interpreter
built in and doesn't need a separate RIP.

Regards
--
Don Cox
doncox@enterprise.net