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 OD-90228                         SUGGESTION                       "PRIDE"-IF
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 MAY 12, 1997                   RELEASE  1.2.0                        PAGE  1

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 REQUIRED DATE- OPEN          USER PRIORITY WEIGHT-  55    RANKING-  0013
 DATE RECEIVED- APR 25, 1997  REQUEST STANDING  - REVIEW   AS OF- MAY 12, 1997
                              TYPE- MOD/IMP

 DESCRIPTION-

        This suggestion will benefit everyone who uses OS/2 with a
        PostScript printer.  It will improve OS/2's  market standing
        among users doing graphics and publishing work.  It will also
        improve the perceived quality of OS/2.  Improvement in the
        PostScript driver is needed in two areas:

        (1) bug fixes -- these seem to have a low priority and take a
        long time.  The latest PostScript driver fixed bugs in image
        drawing, but introduced a bug that means it doesn't print
        italics correctly for hardware-resident fonts.

        (2) font installation -- there is no way to tell the driver
        that fonts are resident in the printer:  e.g., in flash ROM, a
        printer hard disk, or even printer memory.  Thus all fonts that
        are not "hard-wired" as resident in the driver are down loaded
        for each print job, slowing performance enormously.  Overcoming
        this limitation would reduce print times markedly and save
        users' time.

        ATTRIBUTES:

        MEDIUM Value
        Desired next FIXPACK

        Submitted:

        Mike Prager
        Tiburon, CA, USA
        mikep@tib.nmfs.gov

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