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  1. Hi

    I am experiencing the same problem. When I am using a postscript font ? such as univers condensed ? it won't print out. When writing a pdf via acrobat, the font shows as bitmap font. Here's a little work around: before print, hit the 'preview' button. Mac OS X 10.4 creates a pdf, sends it to preview.app, then, once you hit ok, prints it out correctly.

  2. Im using VW 10.5.b1 on a G5Dual. That's nice.

    But using customized paper sizer, the drawing does not rotate right on the plotter, I often get an A4-printout on a paper like an A1. I tried all combinations, so I think this is just an annoying bug that appeared since VW10.

    PS: Anything else works great and superfast ? I'm very glad with that software and your work!

  3. The HP software understands .pdf as well, it has a .pdf rip included. so you can even directly drag a .pdf onto the window of ps rip and it starts ripping...

    But hp rip is horribly slow and produces errors in larger files. The best solution for me was to buy a PC (ugly, beige) and windows 2k server, install appletalk and let it rip. It's fast and reliable.

  4. Here's a short how to:

    Cables: Ethernet connection and a parallel cable.Software:

    On the PC: Make shure you ha a Windows 2k version or NT4 on which you can install the Appletalk protocoll, and file & print services for Macintosh. Maybe it even works without Appletalk, just TCP IP - so you can use a simple Win XP or 2k Pro. Install the HP-PS-Rip-software. Then restart. Then share the new printer. And: 256 Mb built-in are really enough, 128 Mb is to few.

    On the mac, make shure you have the right PPD's under system folder/extensions/printer descriptions.

    On the mac, you should create a new Desktop Printer using the LaserWriter Utility. It's also nice that you now can use Apple-Laserwriter software instead of Adobe PS-Driver. It works great with OS X also.

    It's alos that the HP-PS-Rip-Software on the PC is much further developped than the Mac version. You can simultaneously print and rip. And it's incredibly fast. Even very complex drawings start printing just 20 seconds after they got out of the Mac.

    So buying a cheap old PC even with let's say 300 MHz saves you a lot of time and error-output.

  5. Printing on a Designjet 500PS using Macintosh is not satisfying: the software rip is very slow, with the standard memory configuration you'll get jagged output and you'll waste a lot of time changing your drawing a little (leaving away some lines sometimes helps) or simply: the plotter does stop plotting after a few inches.

    I contected HP support, they could not help. They had to admit that their product is not usable with Mac OS for the everyday-business. After weeks, the solution was that HP gave me an E42-Pentium 4 PC with Win2k installed, it serves now as a print server and everything is working very well. I have an Output quality which I have never seen before on my plotter.

  6. quote:

    Originally posted by rjtiedeman:

    I just installed the new GeForce2 MX drivers 2.1.1

    Strange, I could only find an Update 1.1.1 under

    http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/kbase.woa/68/wa/viewDocument?extKCID=75115

    Where did you get it from? With my Geforce 2 MX, 1.1.1 does not solve the problem. So please leave the link of the updater to download. I'm thanking you in advance (otherwise tell me the number of Steve Frushour's truck)

  7. quote:

    Originally posted by rjtiedeman:

    I just installed the new GeForce2 MX drivers 2.1.1

    Strange, I could only find an Update 1.1.1 under

    http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/kbase.woa/68/wa/viewDocument?extKCID=75115

    Where did you get it from? With my Geforce 2 MX, 1.1.1 does not solve the problem. So please leave the link of the updater to download. I'm thanking you in advance (otherwise tell me the number of Steve Frushour's truck)

  8. If you have a Mac, you can just use PDFwriter or Acrobat Distiller from Adobe, or Print2PDF - they work like a virtual printer. The file generated is a obviously a .pdf-file.

    As far as I know, Adobe's Products are available at least for NT4, W98.

    Since I turned away from Microsoft, I can only inform you about these old OS's.

  9. I think it was me who introduced the idea about Allplan against VW. I wrote down this because this actually is the biggest fear I have about VW / Nemetschek. I had to evaluate Allplan for another company.

    This thought should be considered in the following sense:

    I don't want to work with any other software. VW is great.

    Unless it doesn't print, show selection handles, warps memory usage etc...

  10. This reply is for bringing back this issue to the top of this list.

    Besides of all these woes this list is about, I still believe in VW as THE best tool for my work. So the frustration I share with the hundreds os people in this forum is personal.

    Do we have to wait for a solution, or should we forget it and turn to 8.5.2 with older videocards or even to autocad?

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