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Subject:Re: Is Postscript platform-specific? From:Bill Burns <BillDB -at- ILE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 4 Nov 1997 13:44:23 -0700
Laura escribe:
> (I know that I have an HP Laser 5 and many commercial printers cannot
> recognize the PS files from this printer. I always have to set the
> printer
> to something else which of course reeks havoc with the layout if I had
> forgotten to set it to a different printer while finalizing the
> document.)
>
This may be a driver problem. The HP LJ 5si PS driver used to cause
similar problems with our files. It turned out to be a problem with some
of the PCL codes that the driver put into the file to switch from PCL to
PS mode. I think Adobe's HP 5si PS driver takes care of this problem.
Bill Burns
Senior Technical Writer
ILE Communications Group
billdb -at- ile -dot- com
