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In article <1992Apr15.191434.14666@sarah.albany.edu>, ddl683@csc.albany.edu (Dreaming) writes...
>Hi-- has anyone else seen this problem?  Changing text color (say, black
>to white, or grey), will not sucessfully print on a postscript laser printer.
>Text defined as white against a black background (say, a black rectangle
>behind it) properly shows up in relief on screen, but when
>printed, the text is invisible:  solid black rectangle.

One thing to check is the transfer mode of the text block (you know, the Copy,
Or, And, etc.). It's one of the pop-up menus in the tools (below the line types
and above the zoom factor, if my memory serves correctly). PostScript doesn't
do any of the QuickDraw transfer modes, so that portion of Canvas is useless.
Of course, for some reason, text blocks default to (and need to be set to) Or,
otherwise they don't work. Check to see if you've set the mode to Copy on the
text, and also make certain that you do not have a fill pattern applied to the
text block that is a solid black fill. This doesn't work too well at all. You
should either draw your black rect and send it behind an unfilled text block
with white (or gray) as the fore color for the text, or, a bit easier if you
just want the rect behind the text, dupe the text block with no offset and, via
Object/Object... (Pizza! Pizza! ? ;), convert the dupe text to a rect (tell it
that it's OK to do so) & set your fill pattern et al.

Hope this helps. 


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