On Aug 23, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Phil M wrote:
The reason this is driving me nuts is because no other
applications seem to have this problem with the Fiery RIPs that
I've ever encountered. It's JUST Print Window that causes this
problem. It also doesn't happen to any other type of printer or
RIP that I've ever tried, just Fiery RIPs. So yes, it might be RIP-
specific, but it also points to something specific that Print
Window is doing that is causing the problems with that specific
RIP. If other apps can print to it successfully, so should Print
Window.
If there is any error or warning, then the Adobe Distiller log
window will display it. If your files do not have any errors or
warnings, then it *is* the RIP implementation which is flawed.
Not necessarily. Acrobat Distiller's Postscript-to-PDF engine could
just be especially tolerant of malformed Postscript, just as most web
browsers tolerate poorly written HTML. Your average Distiller user
doesn't *want* it to be overly strict; they want a PDF.
I'm not sure it's a REALbasic issue, per se. It could very well be
my code.
Unless you were creating Postscript or PDF data directly, I doubt
that it is your code.
True enough. It's probably some weird issue with the way OS X is
generating the Postscript; this wouldn't be the first issue I've seen
in this arena.
I can still report it to EFI (maker of Fiery RIPs), and probably
will, but I think that might be barking up the wrong tree as it
does seem something specific to Print Window (which just happens
to be REALbasic-based).
It is to your benefit to report this to EFI asap, so at least you
can tell your customers that you have contacted this issue to EFI
and you are waiting for feedback from them. EFI cannot fix it if
they don't know about it, and who knows how long it will take to
respond to this particular issue.
The chances of there being a bug in the Fiery RIP are somewhere
between zero and zilch. The Fiery RIP, thought it may not be
officially licensed Adobe Postscript, is used on thousands of
imagesetters, laser printers, color copies, and digital presses. It
is a highly reliable and trusted product. The problem is almost
certainly on the application-driver-operating system side.
Eric Williams
Oxalyn Software
http://software.oxalyn.com/
AE Monitor
http://software.oxalyn.com/AEMonitor/
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