Re: 1st Page of Landscape Tables Truncates in PS

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, Yes, Yes!  (Oops, I got carried away.)

I am not the only one.  I have posted this query before, but with a different
printer/driver situation, and of the few people that replied, none really had
an answer. 

As I recall, Dov replied, but said something along the line of "you can't use
the Adobe driver with that Lexmark ppd/printer because Lexmark did not pay
Adobe license money". (However, Lexmark is happily telling people "here are
the ppds you need to use with the Adobe driver".  When asked about this,
Lexmark staffers were amazed to hear what an Adobe person had said.  I make no
claim to know the real truth in it all -- though I prefer to believe Dov,
because he is Dov -- but I sure wish these two companies would get it
together.)

In any case, when we print in similar situations to a Lexmark 2450 (and now to
a 2455), we get the same first-page-of-landscape[not just tables] truncation. 
This occurs whether we are printing directly from FM556 (win95) or first to a
ps file and then pumping the PS file to the printer from the network server. 
[We have used Adobe driver 4.1x and 4.2x, but had some problems with 4.2x
(don't remember what) and had to drop back to 4.1x.]

In my experience, the truncation problem has to do with the switch from
portrait to landscape --  or landscape to portrait.  It is the first page of
the "other direction" which truncates.  It has not seemed to matter if
everything is one file or if the "other direction" starts at the start of a
new file.

We have only had this problem printing from FM.  We have NOT noticed this
problem printing from WP6x or WP8 or Pagemaker.

Our solution has been to start the "other direction" stuff in a new file.  We
print file-1, then a "junk-2-file" which is the "other direction" and then
file-2 which is the "other direction".  

Usually, after printing file-2 we can go right back and print file-1 without a
problem. However, sometimes we have to print a "junk-1-file" to keep it from
truncating the other way.

Any ideas?


-- 
Jay Smith

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Robin Clark wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Running FM 5.5.6, using Linotronic 330 PPD to produce PS file ("Generate
> Acrobat Data" deselected), on Win95. Other variables include Acrobat
> Distiller 3.02 and Driver 4.2.4. The print shop's DocuTech is a PP135 and
> uses Network Server sw.
> 
> Have a multifile book where the 2 Appendices consist of many landscaped
> tables (~90 pages worth, each appendix; the Master Pages are laid out in
> landscape format so no rotation is involved). The first page of each
> appendix ends up "truncated" when transferred to PS - the page size remains
> 11 X 8.5 but the right 3 inches are "missing," as if someone swathed a brush
> of white paint over the page.
> 
> Originally, each appendix started with a multipage table; thinking this
> might be the problem, I split the first tables into separate single-page
> units. I could then produce a successful PS of the individual appendix files
> but when I produced a PS of the book my problem reappeared. When I created a
> PDF from the PS files, the PDFs contained the problem. However, when I used
> the "save as PDF" option from FM, I encountered the reverse situation - the
> first page of each appendix is ok but all subsequent landscaped pages are
> truly truncated (resulting in small, rectangular portrait-oriented pages).
> 
> Using a PS file of the book made via the Acrobat PPD, I achieved perfect
> results creating a PDF and/or printing to my Lexmark OptraS 1650. However,
> when that PS file was fed to our printer's DocuTech, it would not print.
> (We've already tried feeding a good PDF - made via Acrobat PPD/Distiller -
> to the DocuTech, with all fonts embedded and all graphic compression
> settings deselected, but that file also would not print.)
> 
> Looking through the archives, I found posts that blame an unnamed PPD as the
> culprit and suggest the HP LaserJet 4MV PPD as a solution. I have a vague
> recollection that more has been said on this topic, but no can find.
> 
> I am unsure whether the Linotronic/Acrobat PPDs are the problem. And then
> there's the "save as PDF" anamoly cited above, which potentially suggests a
> Frame-spawned error.
> 
> Thoughts? Solutions? Comiserations?
> 
> MTIA,
> R
>

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