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Re: LaserDirect and Risc OS 3.10

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From: Dick Wallin
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 08:17
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In article <Bwxy2n.1Dr@brunel.ac.uk> cs89jmb@brunel.ac.uk (Jason M Banham) writes:

>Greetings,
>
>A quick mail on hopefully a known (fixable) problem.
>
>This afternoon I was attempting to print out a document to my laserdirect
>(Canon LPB-4) and when it reached the final page my machine locked up!
>So, what was causing this?
>Well the drawfile used the Homerton font (as found in RO3.10) and when I 
>replaced this with a SwissB substitute it then printed ok.
>What bugs me is that Homerton is part of Risc OS 3.10 and shouldn't do this
>or is there a yummy bug in CCs printer driver?

I believe that the problem with this is not CC's printer Driver as such but
CC's font manager (ie Fastext) which does not understand RISC OS 3 fonts in
ROM on your version.

Solution 1: switch off fastext and it will probably work.

Solution 2: I believe that CC have updated Fastext in the latest versions.
Sorry but I haven't got the version number.

>Jayce.

Dick Wallin
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From: DWallin@acorn.co.uk (Dick Wallin)
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Subject: Re: LaserDirect and Risc OS 3.10
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Date: 2 Nov 92 08:17:38 GMT
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