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Workarounds?

    03-May-93 20:13:13
Sb: Workarounds?
Fm: Jim Saklad 72017,355
To: SoftWood 75300,670
I have seen mention here of two problems which I also have been experiencing, and I wondered if explanations or solutions or workarounds have been found. I am using FCIIr2 with a DeskJet 550C and the Creative Focus DJC2 driver. 1. Printing a 2 (or more) page project I almost always get a blank ejected after the first page. 2. The pages always print too near the beginning (i.e., the top when in portrait mode, the left in landscape). Even if I tell it 0.75" left and 0.0" right (in landscape), I get a narrow left margin (about 3/16") and wide right (about 9/16"). Also a couple of questions and/or requests: 1. Are there settings in "Graphic Final Print Preferences" that will speed printing (still with good quality) when the document is PURELY black and white text? 2. Is there a simple way fo telling FC NOT to make .info files (icons) with each document saved? 3. Could you consider, for FCIIr3, a "Pamphlet Mode" setting, intended primarily for printing 2 pages side by side in landscape mode on 11" X 8.5" paper, that would recognize the right-hand 1/2 of the page as a second logical page. Among other things, that would allow me to "Insert page break" at the end of left-hand-page material and end up on the right-hand page, instead of on the next physical page, without having to type in al lot of <CR>'s. Probably the best place to put this would be in the "Columns" selector under "Page Setup": snaking, parallel, or pamphlet type (when you also add parallel columns <g>). In pamphlet mode, it would ask for "gutter" width between left and right pages, and also inter-column "gutter" if you selected 2 or more columns, but "2 columns" would mean 2 on EACH half of the pamphlet. . . . . JimDoc, on AutoPilot