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Article #30Re: LaserDirect and Risc OS 3.10
From: Dick Wallin
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 08:17
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!acorn!DWallin From: DWallin@acorn.co.uk (Dick Wallin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech Subject: Re: LaserDirect and Risc OS 3.10 Message-ID: <19924@acorn.co.uk> Date: 2 Nov 92 08:17:38 GMT References: <Bwxy2n.1Dr@brunel.ac.uk> Sender: dwallin@acorn.co.uk Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England Lines: 26