Printing problems; fonts and graphics

QNX Newsgroups (Archives) qdn.public.qnxrtp.photon
1

Hi folks,

having some problems printing stuff using Photon and Voyager.

There are two problems. I have a logo that kind of makes a “letterhead”
out of the printout, and the logo is on a white background and is in red.
When it prints out, it shows up on a almost-black background.

The image is a .gif file, and the way that I print is to simply print to
a file, print1.phs, and then run “phs-to-ps print1.phs | lpr” to a
postscript printer. (I’m not smart enough to figure out the the photon
to print spooler to lpr trick today. That’s tomorrow’s project :slight_smile:)

The second problem is that the font spacing on the printout makes it difficult
to read. For example, the word “Office” completely jams together the “ffi”
part into about the space of 3/4 of the “c” character. In any event, all
characters are really tightly jammed together. This happens no matter what
font size I select (via the “Font+/-” button in voyager).

I’d be happy to provide the .gif, the .phs files, the .ps files, whatever
you need.

Thanks,
-RK

–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

2

Hi RK,

Could you send me the .gif, the .phs file and the .ps file ?
Also what version of RTP are you using?
What type of printer are you using and how is it connected to your
system (i.e. parallel or network )?

Thanks
Brenda


nospam93@parse.com wrote:

Hi folks,

having some problems printing stuff using Photon and Voyager.

There are two problems. I have a logo that kind of makes a “letterhead”
out of the printout, and the logo is on a white background and is in red.
When it prints out, it shows up on a almost-black background.

The image is a .gif file, and the way that I print is to simply print to
a file, print1.phs, and then run “phs-to-ps print1.phs | lpr” to a
postscript printer. (I’m not smart enough to figure out the the photon
to print spooler to lpr trick today. That’s tomorrow’s project > :slight_smile:> )

The second problem is that the font spacing on the printout makes it difficult
to read. For example, the word “Office” completely jams together the “ffi”
part into about the space of 3/4 of the “c” character. In any event, all
characters are really tightly jammed together. This happens no matter what
font size I select (via the “Font+/-” button in voyager).

I’d be happy to provide the .gif, the .phs files, the .ps files, whatever
you need.

Thanks,
-RK

3

Ping?

Thanks,
-RK

nospam93@parse.com wrote:

Hi folks,

having some problems printing stuff using Photon and Voyager.

There are two problems. I have a logo that kind of makes a “letterhead”
out of the printout, and the logo is on a white background and is in red.
When it prints out, it shows up on a almost-black background.

The image is a .gif file, and the way that I print is to simply print to
a file, print1.phs, and then run “phs-to-ps print1.phs | lpr” to a
postscript printer. (I’m not smart enough to figure out the the photon
to print spooler to lpr trick today. That’s tomorrow’s project > :slight_smile:> )

The second problem is that the font spacing on the printout makes it difficult
to read. For example, the word “Office” completely jams together the “ffi”
part into about the space of 3/4 of the “c” character. In any event, all
characters are really tightly jammed together. This happens no matter what
font size I select (via the “Font+/-” button in voyager).

I’d be happy to provide the .gif, the .phs files, the .ps files, whatever
you need.

Thanks,
-RK

–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

4

Hi Rk,

I am just checking to see if you got the post that I put up on Dec 04
Let me know if you didn’t get it…

Thanks
Brenda

nospam93@parse.com wrote:

Ping?

Thanks,
-RK

nospam93@parse.com > wrote:
Hi folks,

having some problems printing stuff using Photon and Voyager.

There are two problems. I have a logo that kind of makes a “letterhead”
out of the printout, and the logo is on a white background and is in red.
When it prints out, it shows up on a almost-black background.

The image is a .gif file, and the way that I print is to simply print to
a file, print1.phs, and then run “phs-to-ps print1.phs | lpr” to a
postscript printer. (I’m not smart enough to figure out the the photon
to print spooler to lpr trick today. That’s tomorrow’s project > :slight_smile:> )

The second problem is that the font spacing on the printout makes it difficult
to read. For example, the word “Office” completely jams together the “ffi”
part into about the space of 3/4 of the “c” character. In any event, all
characters are really tightly jammed together. This happens no matter what
font size I select (via the “Font+/-” button in voyager).

I’d be happy to provide the .gif, the .phs files, the .ps files, whatever
you need.

Thanks,
-RK

–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

5

Gui Group <gui@qnx.com> wrote:

Hi Rk,

I am just checking to see if you got the post that I put up on Dec 04
Let me know if you didn’t get it…

The news server is… welll… “funky” at this point. I just logged in now
(2001 12 05 14:39) and found that a whole whack of messages suddenly appeared
out of nowhere… Thus, there are a bunch of people “pinging” things…
An hour or so when I last checked the newsgroups, there was just a few posts,
one or two here and there. Now there’s like 20 to 30 in the higher-traffic
groups. IS should probably be told about this, unless they just “fixed”
something :slight_smile:

I’ll look for your post…

Thanks,
-RK


Thanks
Brenda

nospam93@parse.com > wrote:
Ping?

Thanks,
-RK

nospam93@parse.com > wrote:
Hi folks,

having some problems printing stuff using Photon and Voyager.

There are two problems. I have a logo that kind of makes a “letterhead”
out of the printout, and the logo is on a white background and is in red.
When it prints out, it shows up on a almost-black background.

The image is a .gif file, and the way that I print is to simply print to
a file, print1.phs, and then run “phs-to-ps print1.phs | lpr” to a
postscript printer. (I’m not smart enough to figure out the the photon
to print spooler to lpr trick today. That’s tomorrow’s project > :slight_smile:> )

The second problem is that the font spacing on the printout makes it difficult
to read. For example, the word “Office” completely jams together the “ffi”
part into about the space of 3/4 of the “c” character. In any event, all
characters are really tightly jammed together. This happens no matter what
font size I select (via the “Font+/-” button in voyager).

I’d be happy to provide the .gif, the .phs files, the .ps files, whatever
you need.

Thanks,
-RK

–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

6

GUI Group <gui@qnx.com> wrote:

Hi RK,

Could you send me the .gif, the .phs file and the .ps file ?
Also what version of RTP are you using?
What type of printer are you using and how is it connected to your
system (i.e. parallel or network )?

Yup; didn’t see this message until just now (2001 12 05 14:41).
I’ll send that stuff off shortly…

Cheers,
-RK

Thanks
Brenda



nospam93@parse.com > wrote:

Hi folks,

having some problems printing stuff using Photon and Voyager.

There are two problems. I have a logo that kind of makes a “letterhead”
out of the printout, and the logo is on a white background and is in red.
When it prints out, it shows up on a almost-black background.

The image is a .gif file, and the way that I print is to simply print to
a file, print1.phs, and then run “phs-to-ps print1.phs | lpr” to a
postscript printer. (I’m not smart enough to figure out the the photon
to print spooler to lpr trick today. That’s tomorrow’s project > :slight_smile:> )

The second problem is that the font spacing on the printout makes it difficult
to read. For example, the word “Office” completely jams together the “ffi”
part into about the space of 3/4 of the “c” character. In any event, all
characters are really tightly jammed together. This happens no matter what
font size I select (via the “Font+/-” button in voyager).

I’d be happy to provide the .gif, the .phs files, the .ps files, whatever
you need.

Thanks,
-RK

–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

7

Hi Rk,

Just out of curiosity which news server are you attaching to
nntp.qnx.com or inn.qnx.com?

That way I can let IS know just in case…

Thanks
Brenda

nospam93@parse.com wrote:

Gui Group <> gui@qnx.com> > wrote:


Hi Rk,


I am just checking to see if you got the post that I put up on Dec 04
Let me know if you didn’t get it…


The news server is… welll… “funky” at this point. I just logged in now
(2001 12 05 14:39) and found that a whole whack of messages suddenly appeared
out of nowhere… Thus, there are a bunch of people “pinging” things…
An hour or so when I last checked the newsgroups, there was just a few posts,
one or two here and there. Now there’s like 20 to 30 in the higher-traffic
groups. IS should probably be told about this, unless they just “fixed”
something > :slight_smile:

I’ll look for your post…

Thanks,
-RK



Thanks
Brenda


nospam93@parse.com > wrote:

Ping?


Thanks,
-RK


nospam93@parse.com > wrote:

Hi folks,


having some problems printing stuff using Photon and Voyager.


There are two problems. I have a logo that kind of makes a “letterhead”
out of the printout, and the logo is on a white background and is in red.
When it prints out, it shows up on a almost-black background.


The image is a .gif file, and the way that I print is to simply print to
a file, print1.phs, and then run “phs-to-ps print1.phs | lpr” to a
postscript printer. (I’m not smart enough to figure out the the photon
to print spooler to lpr trick today. That’s tomorrow’s project > :slight_smile:> )


The second problem is that the font spacing on the printout makes it difficult
to read. For example, the word “Office” completely jams together the “ffi”
part into about the space of 3/4 of the “c” character. In any event, all
characters are really tightly jammed together. This happens no matter what
font size I select (via the “Font+/-” button in voyager).


I’d be happy to provide the .gif, the .phs files, the .ps files, whatever
you need.


Thanks,
-RK

\

Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

\

Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

8

GUI Group <gui@qnx.com> wrote:

Hi Rk,

Just out of curiosity which news server are you attaching to
nntp.qnx.com or inn.qnx.com?

inn.qnx.com…

That way I can let IS know just in case…

Thanks
Brenda

nospam93@parse.com > wrote:

[deleted]

Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

9

Has any one seen an AppleTalk PAP (Printer Access Protocol) driver for
QNX?

John Zigrang

10

Hi, I connect to inn.qnx.com. And yes, all of a sudden yesterday there was
a bunch of messages that had been queued for days.

I saw that for the last several days traffic was way down. Who could I send
a message to if this ever happens again?

–
Bill Caroselli – 1(530) 510-7292
Q-TPS Consulting
QTPS@EarthLink.net


“GUI Group” <gui@qnx.com> wrote in message news:3C0E7C7C.9020506@qnx.com…

Hi Rk,

Just out of curiosity which news server are you attaching to
nntp.qnx.com or inn.qnx.com?

That way I can let IS know just in case…

Thanks
Brenda

nospam93@parse.com > wrote:

Gui Group <> gui@qnx.com> > wrote:


Hi Rk,


I am just checking to see if you got the post that I put up on Dec 04
Let me know if you didn’t get it…


The news server is… welll… “funky” at this point. I just logged in
now
(2001 12 05 14:39) and found that a whole whack of messages suddenly
appeared
out of nowhere… Thus, there are a bunch of people “pinging” things…
An hour or so when I last checked the newsgroups, there was just a few
posts,
one or two here and there. Now there’s like 20 to 30 in the
higher-traffic
groups. IS should probably be told about this, unless they just “fixed”
something > :slight_smile:

I’ll look for your post…

Thanks,
-RK



Thanks
Brenda


nospam93@parse.com > wrote:

Ping?


Thanks,
-RK


nospam93@parse.com > wrote:

Hi folks,


having some problems printing stuff using Photon and Voyager.


There are two problems. I have a logo that kind of makes a
“letterhead”
out of the printout, and the logo is on a white background and is in
red.
When it prints out, it shows up on a almost-black background.


The image is a .gif file, and the way that I print is to simply print
to
a file, print1.phs, and then run “phs-to-ps print1.phs | lpr” to a
postscript printer. (I’m not smart enough to figure out the the
photon
to print spooler to lpr trick today. That’s tomorrow’s project > :slight_smile:> )


The second problem is that the font spacing on the printout makes it
difficult
to read. For example, the word “Office” completely jams together the
“ffi”
part into about the space of 3/4 of the “c” character. In any event,
all
characters are really tightly jammed together. This happens no matter
what
font size I select (via the “Font+/-” button in voyager).


I’d be happy to provide the .gif, the .phs files, the .ps files,
whatever
you need.


Thanks,
-RK

\

Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at
www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

\

Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.

11

Hi John,

I did some checking and unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be supported.

Regards
Brenda

John Zigrang wrote:

Has any one seen an AppleTalk PAP (Printer Access Protocol) driver for
QNX?

John Zigrang
\

12

Hi Bill,

I have brought this to the attention of IS and there are plans to merge
the two servers in the future, this will eliminate the delay that people
are seeing.

Regards
Brenda

Bill Caroselli wrote:

Hi, I connect to inn.qnx.com. And yes, all of a sudden yesterday there was
a bunch of messages that had been queued for days.

I saw that for the last several days traffic was way down. Who could I send
a message to if this ever happens again?

–
Bill Caroselli – 1(530) 510-7292
Q-TPS Consulting
QTPS@EarthLink.net


“GUI Group” <> gui@qnx.com> > wrote in message news:> 3C0E7C7C.9020506@qnx.com> …

Hi Rk,

Just out of curiosity which news server are you attaching to
nntp.qnx.com or inn.qnx.com?

That way I can let IS know just in case…

Thanks
Brenda

nospam93@parse.com > wrote:


Gui Group <> gui@qnx.com> > wrote:



Hi Rk,


I am just checking to see if you got the post that I put up on Dec 04
Let me know if you didn’t get it…


The news server is… welll… “funky” at this point. I just logged in

now

(2001 12 05 14:39) and found that a whole whack of messages suddenly

appeared

out of nowhere… Thus, there are a bunch of people “pinging” things…
An hour or so when I last checked the newsgroups, there was just a few

posts,

one or two here and there. Now there’s like 20 to 30 in the

higher-traffic

groups. IS should probably be told about this, unless they just “fixed”
something > :slight_smile:

I’ll look for your post…

Thanks,
-RK




Thanks
Brenda


nospam93@parse.com > wrote:


Ping?


Thanks,
-RK


nospam93@parse.com > wrote:


Hi folks,


having some problems printing stuff using Photon and Voyager.


There are two problems. I have a logo that kind of makes a

“letterhead”

out of the printout, and the logo is on a white background and is in

red.

When it prints out, it shows up on a almost-black background.


The image is a .gif file, and the way that I print is to simply print

to

a file, print1.phs, and then run “phs-to-ps print1.phs | lpr” to a
postscript printer. (I’m not smart enough to figure out the the

photon

to print spooler to lpr trick today. That’s tomorrow’s project > :slight_smile:> )


The second problem is that the font spacing on the printout makes it

difficult

to read. For example, the word “Office” completely jams together the

“ffi”

part into about the space of 3/4 of the “c” character. In any event,

all

characters are really tightly jammed together. This happens no matter

what

font size I select (via the “Font+/-” button in voyager).


I’d be happy to provide the .gif, the .phs files, the .ps files,

whatever

you need.


Thanks,
-RK

\

Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at

www.parse.com

Email my initials at parse dot com.

\

Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.
\