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From: Robin Lamacraft <>
Subject: Re: [FTST] Letters chopped off
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 08:22:07 +1030
In-Reply-To: <4.1.20011207170906.0092d450@195.241.48.143>


At 17:39 7/12/01 +0100, Dave wrote:

>At 18:31 5/12/01 -0800, Warren wrote:
> >The letters are chopped off on most of the left or right sides of each page
> >where two pages are supposed to meet. In some cases an entire letter is
> >missing and in other cases it is just a protion of a letter.
>
>And Robin Lamacraft replied:
> >>This is usually caused by bugs in your printer driver.<snip>
>
>Robin
>I feel I have to reply to your wide sweeping statement above. <snip>
>I only hope that this problem, and I understand it may just be a HP
>problem, can be resolved by WG before TMG5 makes its appearance because I
>for one think it is idiotic to have to use a competitors printer
>capabilities to print any reasonable tree.


The experiences so far have been such that with a number of brands of
printer Epsom, Canon, Lexmark and HP that various of their drivers have
been defective in minor ways that are any seen when making graphical
requests to their drivers. Differences in fonts, inability to render grey
text and crashing are some of the problems experienced.

That being said I did say "usually" when you might have agreed with "quire
often". BTW: there is an outstanding (over 18 months) HP wide format NT4
printer driver problem that gives a blue screen of death and which HP is
apparently uninterested to fix.

Mind you - TMG / FTST / VCF do pretty well when producing large format
charts. I can show you about 6 other genealogical packages that can't
control these wide format printers correctly (when they claim to).

Have a good weekend - sunny, 24 C, bright blue sky, and a TMG users BBQ!

RobinL


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