CompuServe Messages

Malcolm, The only "historical" problem with the PPage and LJ driver is this: The HP logical page is not able to go from edge to edge. So the dot addressable area is typically 50 dots from each edge. The printable page is different yet. The CBM supplied LJ driver does not take this into account. It is not PPages fault (don't worry, I wouldn't come to their defence if it were not true – I have other 'beefs' with Gold Disk). The result is that the output would be shiffted down and to the right as HP's 0,0 logical address is probably at physical page dot position 75,150. GD, having decided to use device independent printing (i.e. use the preferences printer) is not responsible to fix the problem. CBM should supply a fix. I wrote my own LJ driver to take this offset out. GD, in 2.0, decided to give us a break by adding an x and y offset requester to the print requester so that printers that offset from the preferences specified position can be accomodated without having to shift the page layout in the document itself. BTW, if you look at your preferences margins, then copy an ascii file to the printer, you will see the offset as well. That is because it is in the driver. wmc