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>From: Mike Allen <michaelallen@x-stream.co.uk>
>To: PageStreamWindowsBeta@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [PageStreamWindowsBeta] Non postscript printing
>Date: Wed, May 17, 2000, 5:51 PM
>

>> >>Does anyone else have trouble with latest PGS4.0.6 and printing to
>> non
>> >>postscript.
>> >>I have downloaded the program three times but each time it will not
>> >>print to my Canon BJC620 printer. The previous version did but this
>> one
>> >>just gives a postscript error and leaves the program.
>> >
>> >I don't get any kind of postscript request or error message, but rev
>> 6
>> >does NOT give me any printing to my Canon 8000. After sending the
>> print
>> >command, the program just sits there doing nothing. No lock or crash,
>>
>> >just no printing, either. Beta 10 passed along some printing,
>> although
>> >there were problems with font size inaccuracies, etc. Maybe it's
>> >something to do with Canon Windoze printer drivers??
>>
>> I suspect you're right. I have no trouble with printing on either of
>> my
>> Epson printers (600 Color Stylus & 750 Photo), except for the font
>> size
>> issue. Printing out a bmp image works better than it did on the Amiga
>> in
>> the past (I haven't tried printing bmps on the Amiga with the latest
>> version
>> of PageStream though.). The 600 is on my Amiga and laptop, and the
>> 750 on
>> my desktop.
>
>PII 233; Win 98; HP DJ600 (ancient but fine; used to connect to my
>Amiga)
>It seems that some non-PS printers are working... but here's a story: I
>get printing sometimes with frameless text objects, but no printing of
>text frames or any other objects, just the ubiquitous blank pages.
>BUT, I have perfect working export to pdf. i was shocked to see output
>of documents, even old one that I'd sent to PGSWin from my Amiga via the
>Siamese link. I would be nice to print directly from Pagestream, though.
>
>Mike Allen

I'm pleased to see pdf output working too, but it does seem to have an
idiosyncracy assoicated with Symbol fonts though. A file imported from the
Amiga displays the fonts correctly (i.e. after designating the conversion).
The Symbol fonts show up under PageStream, but not in the pdf file.
However, if I type the Symbol fonts in a new document, they appear okay in
the pdf file. I've had to get that working with old files by starting a new
document, typing some symbol text in the new document, and then copying and
pasting from the original into the new. They seem to display okay in the
pdf document then.

I'm generally pleased, but have to learn a new set of tricks.

Dave