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| Title: | Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago") |
| Notice: | Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything |
| Moderator: | EEMELI::BACKSTROM |
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| Created: | Sun Nov 13 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2958 |
| Total number of notes: | 19968 |
2850.0. "Music printing problems with Noteworthy Composer" by MARVIN::SHAND (Mike Shand) Fri Mar 14 1997 04:35
I apologize in advance for this rather long note...
My daughter uses Noteworthy Composer for Music printing. This uses its
own TrueType Font, and has been working fine on my Win 3.1 system, with
a Canon BJ10ex printer.
Recently I bought a new system running WIN95 (OSR2). One of the first
things my daughter installed was NOteworthy, and she *claims* it printed
perfectly. Unfortunately I have no personal evidence of this. She could have
been mistaken and may not have tried printing, but she is adamant that she did.
However, a few days later while messing with partitions I rather cleverly
managed to trash my C: drive (and D: drive for that matter). SO I reinstalled
everthing from scratch, and continued the process of installing all sorts
of stuff. When my daughter came to print from Noteworthy, she discovered that
it prints as if each note were surrounded by a block of whitespace obscuring
the lines underneath.
So... what's the cause of the problem? I have the following information.
1) Reinstalling Noteworthy makes no difference
2) Deleting and reloading the music font makes no difference.
3) The win 3.1 system continues to work printing to the same printer either
directly, or spooling over the network to the WIN95 system. (so its not a
printer configuration / cable / port settings problem)?
4) Canon, on their web site, don't have a specific driver for the BJ10ex. They
say use the microsoft one.
5) I *haven't* yet tried removing and reintalling the printer support, though
in desperation I probably will.
6) I've tried messing with OutlineThreshold in win.ini; not understanding what I
am doing, but noticing that this is often given as a solution to the problem of
large truetype fonts printing as white boxes (which is a bit similar to my
problem). All to no avail.
7) I've contacted noteworthy, but so far no answer.
8) Among the many differences between the configuration before and after the
crash is that I have installed support for an HP laserjet 4L (printing to FILE).
I can't see how that would be relevant, but I mention it just in case. This
was using the microsoft drivers off the CD, so they shouldn't have overwritten
some dll ot other with a different version.
9) Hmmm - again it should be irrelevant, but I tried to install KEAterm and it
completly trashed my display setup (would only boot in safe mode). I had to
reinstall the Matrox drivers etc. I've since given up on Keaterm and am using
VTstar instead.
10) Oh, in case it isn't obvious, I'd had no other problems (yet) printing
anything else from any other application (mostly only word so far).
Any suggestions? I'm at a loss to know how to approach debugging this.
Mike
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| 2850.1 | Its the Matrox Mystique driver | MARVIN::SHAND | Mike Shand | Mon Mar 17 1997 03:49 | 87 |
| Thanks to Phil Allwood on the Noteworthy forum
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> Re: Printing Problem
>
> From: Philip Allwood ([email protected]
> Date: 16 Mar 1997
> Time: 07:27:18
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> Details
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> I had similar problems when I bought a new PC. The fault lies in the
> graphics drivers supplied with some video cards. In my case this is a
> Matrox Mystique. The problem was only brought to light on the
> Microsoft Knowledge Base on 18 February. The fix with the Matrox card
> is to turn off the use of the PowerGDI Acceleration in the display
> control panel MGA settings. No need to reboot for the correction to
> work. It affected any program which prints text (the notes in
> Noteworthy) over graphics (the staves).
>
> I hope this helps
>
> Phil
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and from the Microft Knowledge Base
Text Printed with White Background with
Matrox Video Drivers
Article ID: Q163771
Creation Date: 18-FEB-1997
Revision Date: 18-FEB-1997
The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows 95
SYMPTOMS
Text positioned over shading or other objects may be
printed with a white background
when you are using the Windows 95 Matrox Millenium or
Mystique video driver version
3.22.
RESOLUTION
The Windows 95 Matrox (MGA) Millenium and Mystique drivers
enable a feature called
"PowerGDI" by default. This feature replaces some
functions of Windows GDI and may
cause printed output to look different from when it is
previewed. Most notably, text
positioned over shading or other objects is printed with a
white background. To disable
this feature, follow these steps:
1.In Control Panel, double-click Display.
2.On the MGA Settings tab, click Advanced.
3.Click the Performance tab.
4.Click the Use PowerGDI Acceleration check box to clear
it.
5.Click OK until you return to Control Panel. Note that
you do not need to restart
the computer for this change to take effect.
MORE INFORMATION
This problem can occur when you are printing to most
non-PostScript printers, such as
Hewlett-Packard LaserJets, DeskJets, and compatibles, and
most dot-matrix and
inkjet printers.
This problem also occurs with the Beta version 3.30 video
driver available on the
Matrox Graphics Web site.
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