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Q-Back Tools Question

    13-Feb-91 02:04:16
Fm: Christopher Tolmie 73657,3335
To: Brian Cowan 73127,3543
Well I ordered it and it was Out of Stock, they said probably ship this Wednesday. So hopefully all the older stock has been replaced or previously shipped. BTW here is a bug report on Central Coast's program, MAC2DOS. Apparently if your writing postscript files using ProPage 2.0a and you've been using MAC2DOS in your system, or open it after writing one or more separations, something happens to the postscript code and it gets truncated by either ProPage directly or indirectly by Mac2DOS! I was going berserk trying to print some postscript separations and kept getting the strangest postscript errors. It lead me to believe that the files were getting munged in the translation somehow! Even though they looked fine when I read them using the read feature in MAC2Dos it became apparent that files were getting beat up! One error message was like this…. Postscript error undefined 674.lique. That is plainly not a postscript operator or error code. Well I tried to write all the files without loading MAC2DOS and downloaded them using the Amiga and my appletalk port on the DigiFex multiport card installed in my A2000. Well it worked fine! Now I should try to use the program and send directly to the imager without using a postscript file. That was hanging up also, the par: port during a print. I've had other problems with MAC2DOS and guess I'd better give George Chamberlain another call and report my problems directly to him.