Can anyone advise the best way to get an accurate print out from MC using
styled (coloured) text? I am not getting accurate line spacing at the moment
using a Mac OS9.1 and a standard Epson Bubble jet printer.
Which would be my best approach:
1) Print from another system (Linux or Windows)
2) Print using a postscript printer on the Mac
3) Export the coloured text into another application (such as Quark
Xpress) and print from there.
If I took the last approach (attractive for other reasons) - does anyone
know of an easy way to keep the style information? I know I could write
Xpress tags and import the tagged text but unless anyone has some scripts
already to do this? - it would take a bit of doing. I've tried exporting as
HTML and seeing if I could find a route that way but so far no joy. Anyone
know an easy way to get the coloured text information into Quark/Word?
NB each document is 400,000 words and the last script I ran over one of
these took 16 hours to complete! - so using a basic AppleScript is not
really possible. I guess there are any number of HTML import plugins for
Quark - aha I'll import the HTML direct into work - OK so that's solved -:)
Background
I have to print a large amount of coloured text that has been styled /
coloured in MC. I have done a test with MC printing the text in the field
and have found that every 4 lines the line spacing is increased resulting in
regular white stripes across the page.
I am only printing styled text in a field, and the field is of fixed line
height using a mono spaced font. I have not yet tested to see if this happen
due to MC scaling the image, whether it happens at larger text font sizes
(tried 4 and 6pt), or with other systems /printers ( I am using Mac OS9.1
and an Epson bubble jet).
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