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Name: Apple LaserWriter Driver for Windows 3.1.x, Revision 3.1
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ABOUT YOUR APPLE LASERWRITER PRINTER SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 3.1 This document contains some important reminders and some information that is not in the manual that comes with your printer. Your Apple LaserWriter CD-ROM or floppy disk set contains all the software you need to print to these Apple LaserWriter printers: CONTENTS OBTAINING PRINTER SUPPLIES You can order printer supplies direct from Apple for the LaserWriter 8500, Color LaserWriter 12/660, Color LaserWriter 12/600, and LaserWriter 12/640 PS printers. For other LaserWriter printers see your Apple-authorized dealer. For the location of the nearest Apple-authorized dealer, in the U.S. call 1-800-538-9696, extension 525. Obtaining Supplies for the Apple LaserWriter 8500 In the U.S., to order toner for the LaserWriter 8500, call 1-800-600-7805. For your reference, the part number is listed below: M5893G/A LaserWriter 8500 Toner Cartridge You can obtain other parts from your Apple-authorized dealer. The parts available are: M5894G/A LaserWriter 8500 A3 500-Sheet Cassette and Feeder M5895G/A LaserWriter 8500 A4 500-Sheet Cassette and Feeder M5896G/A LaserWriter 8500 A3 Duplex Printing Unit M5897G/A LaserWriter 8500 Envelope Cassette Obtaining Supplies for Color LaserWriters 12/660 PS and 12/600 PS In the U.S., to order printer supplies for the Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS and Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS direct from Apple, call 1-800-600-7805. For your reference, the part numbers are listed below: M3755G/A Fuser Oil M3756G/A Black Toner Cartridge M3757G/A Cyan Toner Cartridge M3758G/A Yellow Toner Cartridge M3760G/A Magenta Toner Cartridge M3761G/A Photoconductor Replacement Kit M3867G/A Fuser Replacement Kit, 110v M3876G/A Color LaserWriter Transparencies, LTR size (50 per pack) Obtaining Supplies for the Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS In the U.S. to order printer supplies for the LaserWriter 12/640 PS direct from Apple, call 1-800-600-7805. For your reference, the part numbers are listed below: M4683G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS Toner Cartridge M4682G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS 500-Sheet Cassette and Feeder M4680G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS Envelope Cassette M4697G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS Duplex Printing Unit M4698G/A LaserWriter 12/640 PS Face-Up Output Tray LASERWRITER 8500 PRINTER TIPS Using Letter and A4 Paper Sizes - If you want to alternate between doing letter and A4 print jobs, be sure to specify the specific cassette you want the printer to use. If you use AutoSelect, the printer may detect Letter as A4 or detect A4 as Letter. Additional Regulatory Information - This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. See instructions if interference to radio or television reception is suspected. Responsible Party: Robert Steinfeld Apple Computer, Inc. 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014 Telephone: 408-974-2618 (For FCC Compliance Information Only) Using Centronics to Print a PostScript File - When using Centronics to print a PostScript file Apple recommends that the following DOS command be present in the autoexec.bat file on your PC system: mode lpt1:,,p or mode lpt1:,,b This will ensure that the host computer will not time-out prematurely before the print job completes. Using Centronics to Print a PostScript File from DOS - If you will be printing from an IBM PC or compatible in DOS mode make sure that there is a Ctrl-D character at the end of the file or append another job containing a Ctrl-D. Using NetWare 3.12 and RPRINTER mode - If you will be using NetWare 3.12 with the printer in RPRINTER mode, be sure to check that NetWare banner pages are off or the print job will not print. INSTALLING THE PRINTER DRIVER SOFTWARE ON WINDOWS 3.1 This release of the software includes a separate disk set for Windows NT software installation. For Windows NT, you no longer use the Windows 3.1 disk set. Use the Windows 3.1 disk set only for Windows 3.x systems. 1) Start Windows 3.1. 2) Exit from any applications that are now running. Before installing the software, make sure the Control Panel and Printers control panel are closed. Also, check that you have sufficient hard disk space for the files. You should have at least three megabytes of free hard disk space. 3) Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive. NOTE: These instructions assume you are installing the software from the Apple LaserWriter CD-ROM 2.0. If you are installing from floppy disks, insert disk 1 into the floppy drive. Then, select Run from the Program Manager File menu and type a:\setup.exe and press Return. Then, follow the instructions on the screen. If installing from floppy disks, be careful not to eject the floppy until the installer has finished copying the files from it. 4) Using the File Manager, open the directory on the CD called Win_os\Win_31\Disk1. 5) Double-click the setup.exe file. After a few moments, a message appears warning you to close all other applications before continuing with this installation. 6) Click Continue if you have no other open applications. If you have open applications, click Exit to stop this installation. Close all other applications and start the installation process again. A message appears that lets you view this README.WRI file for late-breaking news. 7) Click Yes to view the README.WRI file. When you have finished reading the README.WRI file, choose Exit from the File menu in the Microsoft Write application. A welcome message is displayed that allows you to select Express installation, Custom Installation, Print Driver Only, or De-Install. Express Installation installs all the software you need for your printer. It installs LaserWriter PostScript Driver version 3.0.1. It also creates the Apple LaserWriter Software program group and installs within it the Read Me file. Print Driver Only installs the minimum software needed for printing only. It installs the LaserWriter PostScript Driver version 3.1 if it is not already installed and the PostScript Printer Description file for the desired printer. Custom Installation lets you specify what portions of the software you would like to install. You can install either the LaserWriter PostScript Driver or the Apple LaserWriter Utility. De-Install lets you remove previously installed LaserWriter software. 8) Click Express Installation. A window appears that keeps you informed as file decompression proceeds. Next, the Installer asks you to restart Windows. 9) Click Restart Windows. After Windows restarts, the Adobe PostScript Printers Control Panel appears. 10) Select the drive that holds your CD from the Drives list box. 11) Select the desired printer model from the PostScript Printer Descriptions Available list and click Install. The PostScript Printer Driver files are installed on the hard disk. A message appears telling you that the driver software was successfully installed. 12) Click OK to dismiss the message. 13) Select another Apple printer, if you want, and click Install to install. Repeat for each printer you want to install. You can install other Apple LaserWriter printers supported by the software. 14) When you're done, click Close. A message appears telling you to use the Printers control panel to connect and set up the printers you've installed. By default, each printer uses LPT1. The Printers control panel Setup dialog box lets you specify a different port, for example, LPT2 or a NetWare queue. IMPORTANT: If you will be using the printer over NetWare you must change two of the default settings. In the Printers control panel select Setup. Then, select the PostScript tab. Turn off the setting "Send Data in Binary" in Performance Options. Also, set "Protocol Options" to "None (AppleTalk)". If you will be using the printer over its parallel port "Send Data in Binary" should be on and "Protocol Options" should be set to "Default - Serial/Parallel". Software installation is now complete. Installing Additional PostScript Printers Using Their PPDs 1) Your CD contains all the PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files for the Apple LaserWriter printers supported under Windows 3.1 in directory Win31\Disk2. Alternatively, you can install the desired PPD from a floppy disk. Insert the CD or disk containing the PPD to be installed in the drive. 2) In the Control Panel of the Windows Program Manager, double-click the Adobe PostScript Printers icon. The Adobe PostScript Printers dialog box appears. 3) In the Drives list box, select the drive and path containing the PPD that you wish to install. 4) In the Printer Descriptions Available list box, select the print model that you wish to install. 5) Click Install. You can continue to install PPDs by selecting entries in the Printer Descriptions Available list box and clicking Install. 6) Click Close when you have installed all the desired PPDs. Deleting Previous Versions of the Driver To install AdobePS, you are not required to remove previous versions of the driver or delete any previously installed PostScript printers. However, if you suspect installation problems, first remove your installed printers from the Printers Control Panel and reinstall them via the Adobe PostScript Printers Control Panel. If, after removing and reinstalling your printers, you are still experiencing problems, delete all previous versions of the driver and reinstall your printers using the Adobe PostScript Printers dialog box. To delete a previous version of the driver: 1) Exit Windows. 2) From DOS, delete the following files (not all files may actually exist in your configuration) from both your Windows and Windows\System directories: *.ebf *.ppb *.ppd *.pfm (delete these ONLY if you did not place them here using the ATM Control Panel or a font installation program) Adobeps?.* Run_enum.* Psinstdv.exe Windown.exe Ps_enum.* Down.dll Dwn.hlp 3) Using a text editor that can save in text-only format (e.g., DOS Edit, Notepad), delete the following lines from the Win.ini file in the Windows directory: PrinterName=<printer_nickname> [devices] <printer_name>=ADOBEPS,<port>,... [PrinterPorts] <printer_name>=ADOBEPS,<port>,15,45,... If the device= line in the [windows] section of the Win.ini file refers to AdobePS, delete that line. 4) Save the Win.ini file in text-only format, then restart Windows. ABOUT THE APPLE LASERWRITER UTILITY FOR WINDOWS Use the Apple LaserWriter Utility with these printers only: Apple LaserWriter 8500 Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS Apple LaserWriter Pro 600 PS Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 PS Apple LaserWriter Select 360 Default printer - The Apple LaserWriter Utility writes to the default printer, so before using the utility be sure that the default printer is pointing to the printer that you want to configure. Using NetWare configuration (for printers that support NetWare) - Be sure not to turn off your printer while you are using any function on the Apple LaserWriter Utility's NetWare menu. If you turn off your printer while using these functions, your computer will hang. If you need to power off your printer, do so after you exit from the NetWare menu. Changing a printer from Rprinter to Pserver or from Pserver to Rprinter - When you change a printer from Rprinter to Pserver or from Pserver to Rprinter, make the change with the Apple LaserWriter Utility first. Then change the configuration on the NetWare file server. If you change the NetWare file server configuration first, you may not be able to select the printer from the Apple LaserWriter Utility's NetWare Configuration menu. The symptom is that the printer displays "N/A" in the Mode field and cannot be selected. If this occurs connect to the printer manually to reconfigure it. For instructions on doing this, see your Apple LaserWriter 8500 User Manual, Appendix A, Connecting to a network printer manually. PCL mode - Some Apple LaserWriter printer models support PCL. Note that the Apple LaserWriter 8500 does not support PCL. The Apple LaserWriter Utility uses PostScript commands to set the printer parameters. If the printer has been set to PCL, PostScript commands sent by the utility will not be recognized by the printer. To correct this, place your printer's communication switch in the factory default position and restart the printer. This returns the printer to AutoSelect mode and PostScript commands will now be processed by the printer. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR 8500, 12/640, OR 16/600 ON NETWARE If you select Print Server Configuration from the Apple LaserWriter Utility's Network menu and you don't see your LaserWriter 12/640 or 16/600 printer model's name in the list of printers available to configure, follow these steps to connect to your printer manually. 1) Run the Apple LaserWriter Utility and select your printer model. 2) From the Network menu, choose Connect to network printer. The Network Printer Manual Connect dialog box appears. 3) The Network number field displays the eight-digit ipx network number for this segment. If your printer is connected to another segment, enter that segment's Network number, then press Tab to enter the Node Address. Type the last six digits of your printer's Ethernet address in the Node Address field. You will find the Ethernet address on the startup page. Press Connect. The Printer Configuration and Status dialog box for your printer is displayed. 4) From the Frame Format list box, select the Frame Format that your NetWare file server uses. By default, NetWare 3 uses frame format 802.3; NetWare 4 uses frame format 802.2. If you want to use both NetWare 3.x and 4.x file servers with your printer, configure the NetWare file servers so that they use the same frame format. Note: The Frame Format list box may display "Autodetect" as its value. This indicates that the printer's frame format is not set yet. 5) Press Send to send the Frame Format to the printer. Then, wait about 30 seconds. You can now use Print Server Configuration to configure your printer. However, be sure to complete your PCONSOLE configuration for the printer first before doing so. GENERAL DRIVER COMPATIBILITY ISSUES Windows 3.0 This version of AdobePS supports Windows 3.1x only. Installation When installing the driver or a PPD file, you must first exit all applications. Interaction With Printers Control Panel Some selections made in the Printers dialog box, such as Set as Default Printer and Connect, take effect only after the Printers Control Panel is closed. Adobe Illustrator If you install Adobe Illustrator after AdobePS, the following message may appear: "The file C:\Windows\SYSTEM\PS_ENUM.DLL already exists and has a different date than the file Illustrator is about to install. Do you wish to overwrite the current file on the system?" Click No. Do not overwrite the file. This same dialog will again appear for RUN_ENUM.EXE. Click No. Do not overwrite this file. If Illustrator has been installed without regard to the above instructions, reinstall the driver using the instructions listed in "Deleting Previous Versions of the Driver." You must delete all previous files to ensure a successful installation. Duplicate Features in the Driver and Application If your application contains the same feature as the driver (such as scaling, orientation, or number of copies), use the application to set the feature; do not set it using the driver. Use the driver options only to set printer options you cannot control via your application's Print or Print Setup dialog box. If you do use the driver to set features that your application also provides, those features may not work as expected. Printing From Multiple Applications Multiple applications cannot use AdobePS 3 at the same time. You must wait until one application has finished printing before printing from another. Image Printing Performance For some applications, printing graphics may be slower than expected. Printing performance will depend on bitmap characteristics (such as size or color) and the method the application uses to print bitmaps. For example, 24-bit color graphics will generally print out more slowly than 1-bit black-and-white graphics. Optimize for Speed vs. Optimize for Portability The PostScript tab has a PostScript Performance section. When you select Optimize for Speed, you may find certain jobs cause the printer to run out of memory, terminating the job with a VM or rangecheck error. If you encounter problems, try setting the PostScript Performance option to Optimize for Portability. Downloadable Fonts Printing lengthy documents that require the driver to download several fonts may generate one or more of the following error messages or conditions: PostScript Error: limit check PostScript Error: VM error Page with the message that the printer has insufficient memory Printer simply does not finish printing the job or resets. Workarounds: Try one of the following: 1) Reduce the number of fonts in the document. 2) Change the PostScript Performance setting on the PostScript tab to Optimize for Portability. 3) Add memory to your printer. Do Not Download Fonts Option The Job Control tab contains the Font Control option Do Not Download Fonts. Use this option only if you know that the fonts that you use in your documents are always available to your printer. Otherwise, the printer may substitute Courier for your fonts. Document Structuring Conventions AdobePS 3 does not emit the DSC comments "%%BeginData ... %%EndData." Without these comments, some network spoolers may fail to process jobs correctly. Some Images Print With Limited Color Images based on RLE-4 and RLE-8 compression print with limited halftoning effects. Typically, shades of gray or color will print as either black or white. Installation of Printer Font Metrics The list of characters available in a font has changed from Windows 3.0 to Windows 3.1. AdobePS 3 uses the information in Printer Font Metrics (PFM) files to help applications lay out text correctly and to instruct PostScript printers how to print text correctly. However, because of the changes in characters available, some older PFMs may incorrectly list character widths and cause either errors in layout of text on the screen, in the printer, or both. AdobePS 3 includes the newest versions of font PFMs for all of the printers it installs. If Adobe Type Manager (ATM) is installed and has included PFMs for fonts on your printer, AdobePS 3 uses those PFMs. If you suspect that your ATM fonts are outdated, you can force AdobePS 3 to use its own PFMs by following these steps: 1) Using a text editor that can save in text-only format (e.g., DOS Edit, Notepad), edit the PFM directory line in the [Setup] section of the Atm.ini file to read as follows: ;PFM_Dir=c:\psfonts\pfm 2) Save the Atm.ini file in text-only format. 3) Restart Windows. 4) Proceed to install a new printer using the Printers dialog box in the Control Panel. 5) Restore the line in Atm.ini to its previous value. Using Print Manager Windows Print Manager will create a temporary file when you print from an application. Deleting this temporary file terminates the print job. Suggested use: Click Cancel from the Print Manager dialog box to terminate the print job or delete it from within Print Manager. Custom Paper Dimensions In some PPD files, the minimum width and height values for the Custom Paper option are represented by three decimal digits. AdobePS 3 rounds off the value to two decimal digits, which may result in an error indicating that one or both of your dimensions are invalid. Workaround: If you wish to use the minimum value, change the AdobePS 3 rounded value (such as 8.26) to the exact value of the dimension with all decimal digits (such as 8.264). Page Preview Image The Page Preview image on the Paper tab reflects only an approximation of the actual printed page. Paper size, color, and border filling in the page preview, for example, may not accurately represent the corresponding characteristic of the printed page. When you specify a watermark to print in outline format, the Page Preview image of the Watermark and Paper tab boxes do not display the outline watermark. This is a limitation of the driver's display feature only; the watermark will print correctly on the physical page. Watermark Printing In some applications, watermarks will print either in the background (the default) or in the foreground, but not in both. Workaround: Try printing the watermarks in both the foreground and background to discover which location works best with your application and printed document. AdobePS uses the PostScript Level 2 Forms capability. Watermarks do not print to a PostScript Level 1 printer. Workaround: Send jobs specifying watermarks to a PostScript Level 2 printer. In some applications, when the Watermark First Page Only feature and Number of Copies features are combined, the watermark prints only on the first page of the first copy. Workaround: Print each copy as a separate job. Some applications don't support multiple pages, but can tile one page when printing. Depending on how your application tiles the page, AdobePS 3 may not know that a single logical page is being printed as two physical pages, for example. If so, the watermark may appear only on the second physical page. N-Up Printing N-up printing may yield unanticipated results. When you combine layout and orientation page-setup options in one document, the first logical page of a job determines the layout for the rest of the job. For example, if you choose portrait orientation for the first page of a document printed in 6-up, all pages in the document will print in the standard order for portrait orientation, left to right, top to bottom, even if you change to landscape orientation in the middle of the job. If you specify landscape orientation for the first page of a 6-up document, all document pages print bottom to top, left to right. For rotated landscape orientation, document pages print top to bottom, right to left. ======= ======= ======= | 1 | 2 | | 3 | 6 | | 4 | 1 | ======= ======= ======= | 3 | 4 | | 2 | 5 | | 5 | 2 | ======= ======= ======= | 5 | 6 | | 1 | 4 | | 6 | 3 | ======= ======= ======= Portrait Landscape Rotated Landscape Additionally, if you request a different resolution, page size, or paper source, or if you request duplex settings for different pages of a document while using the n-up feature, AdobePS 3 completes the previous request and then starts a new page, applying the currently requested page-setup settings. The order of the layout remains the same, although virtual pages of an n-up layout may appear to be missing. This is because AdobePS 3 starts the next set of instructions on a new sheet of paper. In some applications, when the Layout and Copies features are combined, new pages are started, as needed, only in the first copy. Workaround: Print each copy as a separate job. Dialog Box Warning of Application Incompatibility with Watermark and N-Up Features Some applications are incompatible with watermark and page layout (n-up) features. If this is true for an application you are using, AdobePS 3 displays the Application/Printer Setup Incompatibility dialog box, which lets you cancel the print job, try to print using the driver's features, or print without using the driver's features. By default, AdobePS 3 displays this dialog box each time you send a print job specifying features with which the application is incompatible. You can disable the dialog box. To disable the Application/Printer Setup Incompatibility dialog box: 1) Using a text editor that can save in text-only format (e.g., DOS Edit, Notepad), open the Win.ini file and go to the [AdobePS] section. 2) Edit the Show Compatibility Alert line in the [AdobePS] section from: Show Compatibility Alert=1 to: Show Compatibility Alert=0 OR: Add the following line if necessary: Show Compatibility Alert=0 3) Save the Win.ini file in text-only format. 4) Restart Windows. Problems Printing Envelope and Document in a Single Job When you print an envelope-and-letter job involving paper source changes, if the first page uses the manual-feed paper tray and the next page changes to Auto Tray Select, printing may yield unexpected results. For example, envelope text may be printed on letter-size paper instead of the expected envelope. Workaround: Specify specific paper sources instead of Auto Tray Select, or print each page as a separate job. Problems Printing to Printers in Adobe IntelliSelect (AIS) Mode A Printer Mode value of ASCII Mode, set via the Job Control tab, is incompatible with printers in AIS mode and results in an error. Also, files with embedded EPS graphics or text created via drivers other than AdobePS 3 may not print correctly to a printer in AIS mode. Workaround: If your printer has a front panel, change from AIS mode to standard PostScript or TBCP and then reprint the job. Or do not select a Send Mode mode and use only the printer's default mode. Full-Color Bitmap Printing Performance When you select the PostScript option Send Full Color Data and are using 24-bit color images, AdobePS 3 sends the full image data to the printer. You may not need this data for printers that are unable to render 24-bit color images. However, selecting this option allows the printer's halftoning capabilities to be used to their greatest extent to print the best possible image. Alternative: If improved performance is more important than accurate color halftoning, turn off the Send Full Color Data option. Accidentally Printing EPS Files If a printer driver is accidentally configured to print EPS output to a printer rather than a file, AdobePS 3 displays a warning that EPS should not be output to a port; the job prints correctly within the application, then the printer stays in a waiting mode until another job is sent or a time-out error occurs. To avoid this situation, ensure that EPS format is only output to File, not Printer. Font Installation The presence of fonts installed by some font installers may not be recognized. Workaround: To notify the driver of fonts installed by non-Adobe font installers, manually update the Atm.ini file. For more information, consult the ATM user guide. Match Color Across Printers Option The Match Color Across Printers option uses the device-independent color-rendering feature available in PostScript Level 2 color printers to render color output as close as possible to the colors of other Level 2 printers. This feature is intended to give accurate and consistent color rendering across a wide range of color devices. GENERAL FONT DOWNLOADER COMPATIBILITY ISSUES Downloading Task Thermometer The task-progress thermometer does not always reflect the true status of the font downloading task. Even though the font does download, the thermometer may not reflect 100%. Downloading PostScript Files Containing Binary Data The Font Downloader can download only PostScript files containing ASCII data and may display an error if the PostScript file contains binary data. Workaround: In the PostScript tab, turn off the Send Data in Binary option in the Performance Options section, and redownload the PostScript file. Or do not use the Font Downloader. Instead, send PostScript files containing binary data to the printer from DOS using the Copy command. Device Installer Problems Sometimes the Font Downloader does not let you delete installed devices, does not display newly installed devices in the device list box, or continues to list fonts previously deleted. Workaround: Set up the downloader to recognize new or deleted devices: 1) Exit the driver dialog box. 2) From the Printers Control Panel, select the printer, then click Setup. 3) Click the Fonts tab. 4) Click Font Downloader. 5) In the Font Downloader dialog box, click Device Installer. The newly installed devices should appear. To delete a device, select it then click Remove. Update of Win.ini File The Font Downloader does not update the Win.ini file to reflect the fonts that it has downloaded; therefore, other PostScript drivers or applications that read Win.ini file for information updates will not know which fonts have already been downloaded. Misleading Memory Messages Sometimes when you are downloading a group of fonts, the Font Downloader sends messages indicating that there may not be enough available memory to download the individual font. This message may or may not reflect the true state of your printer. Workaround: If you know your printer has plenty of memory, click Yes in the Font Downloader message and continue downloading the fonts. To avoid display of the insufficient- memory message, download the fonts individually, not by group. If your printer is low in memory, you may not be able to download all fonts to it. APPLICATION SOFTWARE COMPATIBILITY ISSUES Aldus Freehand Aldus Freehand does not support the Rotated Landscape Orientation option of the Paper tab. Fractal Design Painter 2.0 Fractal Design Painter 2.0 is compatible only with the Optimize for Portability option in the PostScript Performance section of the driver dialog box. Micrografx ABC FlowCharter 3.0 In documents over seven pages long, letters might print superimposed upon each other. This problem seems to occur on printers with a resolution of 600dpi or higher. Workaround: Print to a printer with a resolution lower than 600dpi. Micrografx Designer 4.0 AdobePS 3 does not support the Colored Pattern Brush feature of Designer 4.0 or Charisma. It prints filled areas of color bitmaps in black and white. MS Excel Printers with resolutions in excess of 300dpi may exhibit uneven patterning in graphics using color fill patterns. MS Notepad and Cardfile Resolution of 600dpi or above may cause Notepad and Cardfile to print with incorrect margins. You may be able to correct this by changing the margins from 0.75", the default margins, to another . Workaround: Most printers with resolution above 600dpi have lower resolution modes. If so, select a lower resolution in the printer's Print Setup, Setup, and Features tabs. If not, install the Adobe Default Printer and select it when printing from Cardfile or Notepad. MS Online Microsoft Online may not print when AdobePS 3 is selected and the printer name is longer than 29 characters. Workaround: Choose a printer name with fewer than 30 characters. MS PowerPoint 3.0 Resolution changes requested from within the PowerPoint 3.0 Print Setup dialog box do not take effect. Workaround: For printers that allow control of their resolution, use the AdobePS 3 Features tab to change resolution in your PowerPoint 3.0 files. When printing some colored text from PowerPoint 3.0, the text prints in black rather than the selected color. MS PowerPoint 4.0 Printing files containing multiple embedded EPS objects from this application may results in either lost text or lost EPS objects. Workaround: Convert the embedded EPS objects to PowerPoint objects by double-clicking on them. MS Publisher 2.0 The BorderArt feature of MS Publisher 2.0 is incompatible with AdobePS 3. If you try to use this feature with AdobePS 3, the printed file may be missing lines from the upper and bottom right and left corners of the border. Some PageMaker files may print with unexpected results. Workaround: Make sure that you have selected the correct type of printer in the PageMaker print dialog box and that PageMaker's PPD file directory contains the correct PPD file for the printer you are using. Persuasion 3.0 Depending on the file you are trying to print, Persuasion 3.0 is sometimes incompatible with AdobePS 3. Printing sometimes results in a blank first page or a PostScript error. Quicken 3.0 If you choose to print partial checks in batches of one or two, instead of the standard batch of three, you may get unexpected results. When you request partial check printing, Quicken prints a blank first page, a second page in portrait orientation, and a third page in landscape orientation. WordPerfect 5.1 Early versions of WordPerfect may exhibit some problems with this driver. Examples include: unreadable text in the WordPerfect Select Printers dialog, dimmed Select control in the Select Printers dialog when switching printers, and mismatched settings between AdobePS 3 and WordPerfect. Workaround: Use WordPerfect 5.1 or later. FILES INSTALLED This section identifies the files that are installed by an Express Installation: These PostScript Driver files are placed by default in c:\windows\system: ADOBEPS.DRV ADOBEPS.HLP ADOBEPSI.CPL ADOBEPSI.HLP CTL3CV2.DLL DOWN.DLL DWN.HLP FONTS.MFM LTCCNTRL.DLL PS_ENUM.DLL PSINSTDV.EXE RUN_ENUM.EXE WINDOWN.EXE The README file is placed in c:\LWUTILS: README.WRI The Apple LaserWriter Utility is installed on a Custom Install only. Files are placed by default in c:\LWUTILS: ALWPU.EXE ALWPU.HLP ALWPUNET.DLL The Adobe PostScript Printers control panel installs PostScript Printer Description files into c:\windows\system. These PPDs for the printer models indicated may be installed at the user's request: LaserWriter 8500 - APLWBGR1.PPD Color LaserWriter 12/660 PS - APLWCSB1.PPD LaserWriter 12/640 PS - APLWMGS1.PPD Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS - APLWCOB1.PPD LaserWriter 16/600 PS - APLWGRI2.PPD LaserWriter Select 360 - APLWSEL.PPD LaserWriter Pro 600 - APTOLLD1.PPD LaserWriter Pro 630 - APTOLLW1.PPD DEFPRTR.PPD NetWare DLLs are installed by default in the C:\LWUTILS directory for the administrator's convenience: NWCALLS.DLL NWIPXSPX.DLL HOW TO GET UPDATED SOFTWARE To find the most recent version of this software, please consult the Apple Software Updates Library available at http://asu.info.apple.com/ .
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