Re: Print/driver questions

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

This "technician" is at best stretching some fact into fiction
to cover his *ss!

Certain applications, notably the high-end publishing applications
such as InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, PageMaker, Acrobat, and
Quark XPress in fact generate most, but not all of their own PostScript.
The PostScript driver typically supplies the device-dependent setup
code and funnels the application-generated PostScript to the correct
queue for subsequent printing. Such applications work in conjunction 
WITH the driver setup with its PPD file. No PostScript printer driver
instance properly setup with a PPD file, no PostScript output. 
No ifs, ands, or buts about it! FrameMaker under Windows relies entirely
on the PostScript driver for all of its PostScript creation except for 
some aspects of PDF information that it inserts as PDFMark into the 
PostScript stream as well as EPS file setup and restore code.

        - Dov


At 2/10/2003 12:43 PM, Bart Windrum wrote:
>(Dov),
>
>In another futile round of tech troubleshooting the SMP (stupid Mita printer -- a company called Kyocera makes it) we've determined that the driver has no PPD, hence the Adobe postscript driver can't access any of the printer's configurable functionality (duplexing, drawers, etc.). The technician laid some new information on me: that due to the existence of PCL printing, PC-side publishing apps typically have their own postscript driver built in which the apps can use by default. He cited QuarkXPress as an example. He mentioned that other apps (Word) generate output in a format determined at the time of printing according to the driver specified.
>
>Is this an accurate summarization? If so, does Frame/pc have a built-in postscript driver? What about Reader?
>
>Interestingly, in addition to the strange problem of the PCL driver fuzzing text pixels in all the .gif images (!), my PDF pages are all offset down and rightwards .25" from the PC (but not the Mac, but the SMP chokes when trying to duplex the Mac files).
>
>Lastly, a 5% blk value (tint field) appears in the PCL output but drops away from the Mac output (to the SMP; not on my Apple 16/600). The value clearly appears onscreen however...
>
>It appears that sans a pc PPD we're at the end of the line w/this device (happily negotiations are underway...)
>
>__________
>Bart Windrum
>GUI Fit&Finish and Documentation
>Diogenes Inc.
>Denver Colorado USA
>
>720 210 1011 direct
>720 904 2321 main
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>Bart.Windrum@diogenesinc.com


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