Hi everyone: Can someone please help me resolve a WMF dilemma? I am in the midst of purchasing a color laserjet to print MS word reports that contain mapinfo maps as windows metafiles. The first three printers I've tested (from tektronix,lexmark,and HP) had some problems printing the word files that contain WMFs. These problems have ranged from the 'just plain bizarre' to the 'downright funny'. In the course of all of this heartache, I've learned that WMFs are configured for the PCL printer language. Naturally, I went to HP which uses PCL as a native language (others generally being postscript, PCL "emulations", or others). The color laserjet HP that I am testing now has an interesting quirk: it draws the nodes of the polygons in the wrong order, so that nodes that shouldn't be connected are and lines cut across solid polygons, producing a kind of extruded effect. But now that I'm printing to the Native PCL driver, I'm confused as to why the WMFs are not printing as they appear on the screen in the word document. I have found the same results across all three Windows OSs (95,98,2000). And I have not seen any problems remotely like this on my ink jets. Has anyone else ever encountered anything like this? I'll take any and all suggestions. I'll take suggestions on color laser printers, too, but I would like to avoid returning yet another printer (it's starting to feel a little bit too much like Ground Hog Day). Thank you! I will SUM. Julie Kanzler GIS Specialist Wyle Laboratories Arlington, VA (703) 415-4550 ext. 20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
