Apple LaserWriter Plus - Text Prints Upside

DocumentID: 647159
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:19 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer has an Apple LaserWriter Plus with a LaserMaster LC2 card. He is using the LaserMaster LC2 (Additional) driver supplied by LaserMaster. Margins do not print in the correct position in landscape orientation on this printer. For example, margins of 1.75" top and 5.7" left print as 1.75" bottom and 5.7" right. Also, text in landscape is printing rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise instead of 90 degrees clockwise. So, the text prints upside down. If the rotation was 90 degrees clockwise, then the margins would probably print correctly. Solutions: The Apple LaserWriter printer is the only printer that the LaserMaster card supports that feeds manual feed paper through the back slot. This requires a rotation of 90 degrees clockwise. This is the rotation the printer gives when WP sends it a code to print from the HP LaserJet or Apple LaserWriter drivers. When you select a LaserMaster printer driver, WP sets LaserMaster's page image, and rotates it counter clockwise. This is the only printer, that LM supports, that needs the rotation to be clockwise. All other printers require a counter clockwise rotation. This change would have to go in the program. At this time, WP does not support clockwise rotation. In this customer's situation, he was printing on envelopes. A work around was developed for him. He fed in the envelopes reverse of what he would need to if he was using the Apple LaserWriter printer driver definition. The form definition was Envelope Wide, 11" x 8.5", Landscape, 0" offsets. It included a Label defined as 9.5" Wide, 4" High, 1 row, 1 column, Top left corner, 4.5" Top, and 1.5" left. He defined the margin in the document for his return address or sending address. Status: Sent to Development ***|sent to dev|*** Press Enter on link token.

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