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 REQUIRED DATE- OPEN          USER PRIORITY WEIGHT-  55    RANKING-  0024
 DATE RECEIVED- APR 25, 1997  REQUEST STANDING  - REVIEW   AS OF- JUN 16, 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

        SUPPLEMENTAL TEXT:
        June 1, 1997

        It would be nice to have all the possibilities PS driver
        offers in a generic PS driver, i.e. resolution 100-3000dpi,
        possibility of printing 2 sides per page and so on.  The use
        of PostScript drivers is not limited to the mere printing.
        PostScript files can be used also as an electronic document
        archive.  Especially in the scientific environment, many
        documents are preserved in the PS format, so this improvement
        would greatly improve the utility of Warp.

        Submitted by:

        Sfiligoi Igor
        Udine, Italy
        Universita' degli studi di Udine
        sfiligoi@udalf2.fisica.uniud.it

        SUPPLEMENTAL TEXT:
        Jun 13, 1997

        OS/2 drivers are needed for many PostScript drivers.
        There are no OS/2 drivers for any of the color copiers I have
        seen.  Of course IBM can't support all the PostScript devices
        available, but what about a PPD based driver as used on Macs
        and Windows?  All PostScript drivers are supplied with PPDs.
        The benefits of an improved driver should be clear.
        PostScript printers are used a lot in both offices, schools
        and for DTP-work.  And color photocopiers are becomming
        increasingly popular for office use.  If a PPD based driver
        was introduced OS/2 could support all PostScript printers/RIPs
        without requiring any aditional work.

        Submitted by:

        Mikkel C. Simonsen
        Haderslev, Denmark
        mcs@post5.tele.dk

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