Hatches

[FRED JOHNSON]

Has hatches been improved in 9.5?. Last night I came face to face with the problem of scaling the VW earth hatch, what a hassle, never got it right, why is it so @@#-%^&* big in the first place. Just how does one adjust the $$#-##@! slider things anyway? At this point I've come to avoid all hatches as a matter of course--not good.

[MikeB]

In 9.5 there is a place in the hatch creation dialogue to enter a scale factor so you can make the hatch 80% smaller or 120% bigger or whatever.

[MikeB]

Well, I'm not entirely sure. We have 14 mac, G-3 and G-4 some in OS 8.6, some in 9 and some in X

We use the Macplot network pack to plot to a HP Design Jet 600 using a HP JetDirect EX print server over an ethernet network. Everyone seems to be plotting with no trouble.

3 of us are running X and have 2 installations of VW on our machines. One set to run in classic and one set to work in X. If we have to plot we have to quit the X version and launch VW in Classic to access the Mac plot drivers in the Classic environment. Kind of a bummer but this isn't VW problem, its Macplot, Apple and HP. It would be wonderful if HP had better support for the Mac OS in general.

We had been using PowerPlot, It would not print using the HP-GL2 language out of VW 9. we were informed by VW that since PowerPlot was no longer being supported they did not test with it and were not planning on testing it. At that point we found it necessary to move to MacPlot.

Hope this helps.

P.S.I've found VW in OS X to be very stable and OS X in general is a joy to work with.

[FRED JOHNSON]

Mike,

I'm using Macplot Pro to plot to my HP330, under system 9.1. If I upgrade to VW9.5 only, everything else staying put would there be a plotting problem?

[MikeB]

I really don't know.Based on our experience I think you would be OK, but every system is different.

You could try it and if it dosen't work you can send VW back. I think you have a 90 day trial period if you buy direct from NNA

[CipesDesign]

Fred, I plot from a G4 running OS 9.1 and VW 9.5.0 (a FREE upgrade for all registered 9xx owners) to an HP DJ 230 (very similar machine to yours, I think) using MACPLOT RASTER DRIVER, via ethernet network & print server. Originally upon going to VW 9.5.0 I could not plot (sheets came out entirely black!). I was forced to quit 9.5.0 and open the file in 9.0.1 which then plotted fine, but it was a pain. So I was advised (by NNA) to update to CaronLib 1.5 (a Mac system resource available from apple for free) and that fixed everything. Then yesterday MacPlot sent me a small update (a "pdat" file) w/ installer for their driver. I was a little hesitant at first (cause if it aint broke...) but after a quick reconfigure everything is still fine. And by the way, I really like VW 9.5.0 (I hated 9.0.1-slow,etc). I hope this was helpful. PLC

[FRED JOHNSON]

Now THAT seems to be a definite improvement! I would move on to 9.5 in a heartbeat if the plotting problems, as I understand them (plotting from a carbon-based application using system 9.x) can be resolved...or has it been resolved??

Thanks,

fjjRA

[Guest]

Microspot has issued an updater for MacPlot Raster 5.1.2 to provide

compatibility with Carbon. It can be found on their website at

http://www.microspot.co.uk/support_pages/sw_updates.html.

[FRED JOHNSON]

Katie,

The link brings up an error - no info for an updater.

fjjRA

[klinzey]

Try

http://www.microspot.co.uk/support_pages/sw_updates.html

The trailing period made it a bad link.