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06-Oct-89 11:50:57
Sb: ##postscript code (13249)
Fm: J.Sherman/Sherman's Army 71157,132
To: Eldor Gemst 74116,2714
Greetings from a lurker. Be very wary of the Micrographix drivers. I've been
using Designer since v1.0, and paid dearly for every new MGXPS.DRV they wrote.
First one rotated text backwards; the next version cut off legal pages down to
letter size image (on some devices only); the correction for that version would
only allow the Linotron's 4 native fonts to be used (that's right, a Linotron
driver that trashed all soft font calls), and the latest gem, version 2.0
MGXPS.DRV *seems* stable. Even with extended dealer tech support program, I
have to pull teeth to get Micrographix to talk, or to send out updates. (You've
got to ask them, even if you subscribe they won't send them automatically.) It
sounds very much like you hit another MGX bug. If you can, try using Corel Draw
instead of Designer-the printer controls are exceptional, and it will use "any"
standard Windows/Microsoft PSCRIPT.DRV. Interesting note: Aldus said the Adobe
Ill/PC driver (which identifies itself as -ALDUS v.3.1 b2.4- ) is a beta
version that should never have been shipped! The Aldus 3.0 driver, shipped with
Pagemaker, is their current release. They are aware of driver
conflicts/problems, and suggested I get Microsoft 3.2 or 3.3. Then Microsoft
said the latest Microsoft driver was v.3.1. (Which identifies itself as ALDUS
3.1 !!) However you get it, the Aldus 3.1 driver seems most stable.
Unfortunately, both Micrographix and Adobe require their own drivers to
implement special features….and both have bugs. That's how I wind up with 4
"PSCRIPT" driver flavors in win.ini…. Which, by the way, will self-destruct
when it gets about 32k long! Of course, that's not a minor bug, that's an
undocumented housekeeping feature….