Tech Tidbits



Author: from AppleLink

Date: January, 1988

Keywords: hints tips macterminal hypercard imagewriter cricketdraw

Text:
 MacTerminal Problem:
?  One of our Macintosh* users has an intermittent problem with
MacTerminal version 2.2.  Occasionally when she scrolls back through
material she has received it will appear to be badly garbled, even
though it looked OK when it was received.  Any suggestions? 
*  There is an option in MacTerminal to permit you to ''save screens
before clearing''.  This option should be turned on.  Some online
services use a system that has a clear screen function which may be
creating the corruption you describe.
 

HyperCard Printing Problems on a ImageWriter:
?  When printing cards in groups of 8 or single cards, after a few
lines of print the printer jogs the paper forward a fraction of an inch
too much and then jogs it back.  This tends to leave a small white,
unprinted line on the page that looks like the printer missed between 1
and 3 dot lines across the page.
 *  The problem you have identified is not with HyperCard* but instead
a known anomaly with the ImageWriter* print driver.  Depending upon the
weight of paper used and size of the pin feed holes in the paper, the
printer after jogging the paper, does not properly realign the paper
where the printing stopped before the jog.  The problem can be some
what helped by:
     1) Using a heavier weight paper (20 lb. or heavier stock).
     2) Using a paper stock with smaller pin feed holes.
     3) Use single sheets and friction feed.
 
Changing Default Fonts submitted by Mike Blumenthal, Blumenthals:
     It is in fact possible to change the default fonts on the
Macintosh.  The default font is controlled by a byte in the parameter
ram.  There are two easy ways to control this byte; Afonts, a desk
accessory, and PRAM,an application, both in the public domain, and
available from a variety of bulletin boards and user groups.  Afonts,
controls the default system font, and PRAM is a replacement for the
control panel and allows you to change defaults for all the parameters
controlled by the parameter RAM.  Both work well and are particularly
useful in a DTP environment.  [Tech Tidbits Editorial Note:  This may
not apply in all cases, as the default font can also be application
dependent.] 
Error Code 8133
     Dennis Brennan of Cricket Software has just advised us that they
have tracked down the mysterious Error Code 8133 which will
occasionally haunt a Cricket Draw* user, then seemingly disappear,
never to be seen again.
      THE FIX:  Once you have copied your Cricket Draw program onto
your hard disk, enter the Page Set Up section, and even if you change
nothing, be sure to click on the "OK" box.  This will permit Cricket
Draw to correctly identify the LaserWriter, and the 8133 Error Code
will not be displayed.  Our thanks to Dennis and Cricket Software for
sharing this information with us, and for their continued support in
providing us with timely items for Tech Tidbits.

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