|
View previous topic :: View next topic
|
| Author |
Message |
Rob C
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 535
Location: Southern Connecticut
|
 Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:54 pm Post subject: Garbled text when printing |
    |
|
I've suddenly had seemingly random problems with text being printed as exclamation points and other garbage almost randomly. Views on screen fine and usually prints OK, but then for no apparent reason the next page out of the printer is garbled. This happens with both PS laser printer and Non-PS inkjet. Anyone else had this experience?
_________________
Rob
www.robertcoolidge.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Rob C
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 535
Location: Southern Connecticut
|
| Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:56 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Ooops. Forgot
PowerBook G4 1.67Ghz
OS 10.4.8
PowerCADD 7
_________________
Rob
www.robertcoolidge.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
lavardera
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
Posts: 422
Location: merchantville, nj
|
| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:25 am Post subject: |
|
|
I occasionally have had this happen to me with PC6. I've tried to figure out what preceded it - I found that sometimes I had left the computer plotting while I went out for an errand. I suspect the screen was sleeping, and something else that affected the rendering of text was going to sleep with it. But the problem persisted after the computer was woken, and went away with a logout/in or a restart. Circumstantial evidence at best - sorry!
_________________
--
greg |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
jasonlocher
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 634
Location: Austin, Texas
|
| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:40 am Post subject: |
|
|
| I've had this happen a few times. I repaired permissions and rebooted and it went away. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Rob C
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 535
Location: Southern Connecticut
|
| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| jasonlocher wrote: | | I've had this happen a few times. I repaired permissions and rebooted and it went away. |
That's what I just did today, and I'm back in operation again...for now. It will remain a mystery, but I missed a day's mail 'cause I couldn't finish a set of prints. Ugh.
_________________
Rob
www.robertcoolidge.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
jasonlocher
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 634
Location: Austin, Texas
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:44 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Rob - I haven't seen any patters of operation leading up to this bug either so like you said, it will remain a mystery. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Rob C
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 535
Location: Southern Connecticut
|
| Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Just today, while printing out a bunch of pages: print a page, edit the text, print it again, repeat...it suddenly decided to stop printing the text.
_________________
Rob
www.robertcoolidge.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
jasonlocher
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 634
Location: Austin, Texas
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Kent
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 57
Location: Birmingham, AL
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:12 am Post subject: |
|
|
| We have had a text issue in which, in the final printing at the blueprinting company, every return in text or tab in text showed up as a square. At first we did some experiments and determined that there were a couple of fonts that created the problem. We thought we were finished with this problem, then it appeared again with a font that we determined did not have the problem. It only appeared on the prints from the blueprinter and not on any of our printers in house from either a direct print or from the .pdfs sent to the blueprinters. After some additional tests with the blueprinters they determined that it was a color issue in the .pdf file. If they printed it as a color file the problem occured, if they printed it as a b&w file it did not occur. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
jasonlocher
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 634
Location: Austin, Texas
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:55 am Post subject: |
|
|
| this also happened with me - a small print shop in hawaii was printing my pdf's out with black squares all over them. Final solution was to push out a TIFF file and have them download it from my server. A 90 sheet set ended up being almost half a gig but at least it printed correctly. CopyCat was a HUGE timesaver in that conversion process by the way. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Rob C
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 535
Location: Southern Connecticut
|
| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Been a while since I ran a test, so I did it just now. Passed OK. I have various Stone Sans and Tekton fonts. What's worse, I've seen some parts of my title block print fine, while other blocks in the same print out be garbled.
_________________
Rob
www.robertcoolidge.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
blogger
del.icio.us
digg
slashdot
