Re: Postscript/Docutech Printing Problems

[Grant <rowan@xxxxxxxx>]

At 03:10 PM 4/5/99 -0500, smurphy@softworkscc.com wrote:
>I just printed a software manual to a Docutech (delivered the PS
files to   
>a printer who ran the job). In the past this has worked well for me,
but   
>this time I ran into a couple of problems:
>
>1) I have a diagram that I created in Visio and saved as a .WMF; it
looks   
>okay except for text with bullets (text created in Visio, not FM).
The   
>bullets show up as a lower case "y". The font is TrueType Arial.

The last sentence is the clue.  :-)
The font was not embedded.  If you substitute a Type 1 Arial, you
should be fine.

>2. There is an appendix for which I created a set of rotated master
pages   
>(one for left, one for right). The pages contain tables. The
right-hand   
>page printed fine but the left-hand page printed too high on the
page,   
>cutting off the header and part of the table. This was the only page
in   
>the entire manual that did this (am wondering if the Docutech itself
  
>could have printed this improperly).

I suspect that that might be right, but have you tried distilling
just those pages to see if it's in the file??

>The document was printed to a size of 7 x 8.5 inches using
FrameMaker   
>5.5.6 on a Windows 95 platform.

Those should all work just fine.

Grant
Grant Hogarth
Technical Publications Manager
Onyx Graphics Corp., Midvale, UT
mailto: grant@onyxgfx.com
Web: http:\\www.onyxgfx.com

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