The following list is a compatibility report on the Personal LaserWriter
LS, StyleWriter, and TrueType INIT. These are the findings as of February
26, 1991.
Even though Apple has reviewed this list, Apple makes no warranty or
representation, either expressed or implied, with respect to this list, its
quality, accuracy, or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will
Apple be liable for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential
damages resulting from any defect or inaccuracy in this list. Please
contact the developer for current compatibility information.
Mention in this list does not constitute an endorsement by Apple Computer,
Inc. Third-party product information is provided for compatibility reasons
only.
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4th Dimension 2.11 - No problem.
Acta 3.01 DA - No problem.
Adobe Illustrator 88 1.9.3 - TrueType problems with text in large point
sizes. TrueType quality will not be very high in any point size. Adobe
Illustrator 3.0 - Requires Adobe Type Manager 2.0, does not take
advantage of TrueType. Prints to Personal LaserWriter LS at 72 DPI.
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 - No problem.
Adobe Type Manager 1.2 - No problem.
Adobe Type Manager 2.0 - No problem.
Aldus Freehand 2.02 - On Personal LaserWriter LS, may experience crashes
when printing graphics which were created as bitmaps in another
application and then pasted into Freehand through the clipboard.
The StyleWriter has the following problems: Some features do not work
correctly. Lines assigned a width of 0 should print as hairlines,
but are printed as 1 point lines. Some rounded rectangles do not
print as smoothly as other printers.
AppleScan 1.02 - No problem.
atOnce! 1.01 - No problem.
Canvas 2.1 - No problem.
Claris CAD 1.0v5 - No problem.
Color Studio 1.0 - No problem.
Cricket Draw 1.1.1 - No problem.
Cricket Graph 1.3 - Does not display third-party TrueType fonts.
Cricket Paint 1.0 - No problem.
Cricket Presents 2.0.1 - Times Bold/Italic lines of text sometimes get
cut off when printing Personal LaserWriter LS.
Delta Graph 1.5 - No problem.
Design Studio 1.01 - No problem.
Digital Darkroom 1.1a - When printing a select portion of a document to a
StyleWriter from a Macintosh SE, the system will crash. Printing a
Digital Darkroom document to the StyleWriter, the image is recreated
eight times in miniature at the top of the page. A black line appears
across the print options box of the StyleWriter driver.
Dreams 1.1 - TrueType text occasionally causes a Personal LaserWriter NT
to crash. Printing rotated text to the Personal LaserWriter LS, both
the rotated object and the original non-rotated object are printed.
FoxBASE+/Mac 2.01 - TrueType fonts with bitmaps installed have spacing
problems when printed, and bottoms of characters are sometimes clipped.
FileMaker II 1.1v2 - No problem.
FileMaker Pro 1.0v1 - No problem.
Full Impact 2.0 - Text is dropped when printing to Personal LaserWriter LS
under MultiFinder.
FullWrite Professional 1.1 - No problem.
HyperCard 2.0v2 - No problem.
Image Studio 1.7 - In landscape mode, prints strips of garbage across the
page. Happens to a number of printers, including Personal LaserWriter
LS and StyleWriter.
LetraStudio 1.5 - Designed only for Letraset's proprietary or Postscript
fonts, will not benefit TrueType users.
MacDraft 2.0 - No problem.
MacDraw 1.9.8 - No problem.
MacDraw II 1.1v2 - No problem.
MacWrite II 1.1v1 - Type sizes greater than 127 will not display or print
correctly. TrueType fonts will not display correctly in reduced view.
MacFlow 3.0.3 - No problem.
MacInTax 89 2.0 - No problem.
MacMoney 3.5 - No problem.
MacPaint 2.0 - No problem.
MacProject II 2.0v3 - No problem.
MacroMind Director 2.0 - No problem.
MacWrite 5.0.1 - No problem.
Microsoft Excel 2.2a - No problem.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2.01D - TrueType text spacing is bad enough to cause
the text to be illegible on the Macintosh II family of CPUs. This
problem does not occur with PowerPoint 2.01.
Microsoft Word 4.0b - When printing to the Personal LaserWriter SC or LS,
TrueType output sometimes has line breaks in the wrong places, and
incorrectly spaced characters.
Microsoft Works 2.0b - No problem.
MiniCad+ 2.0v6 - Double underlines print as single underline on the
Personal LaserWriter LS and StyleWriter. StyleWriter drops all
underlines at 40% reduction.
More 3.0 - No problem.
Nisus 2.11 - No problem.
Nisus 3.01 - No problem.
PageMaker 3.02 - No problem.
PageMaker 4.0 - No problem.
Persuasion 2.0 - No problem.
PixelPaint Professional 1.0.1 - Printing to Personal LaserWriter LS and
StyleWriter often causes a crash.
Quark XPress 2.12 and 3.0 - Problems with large point sizes and
reduced and enlarged view.
Quickmail 2.2.3 - Will not print in text mode to the StyleWriter.
Quicken 1.5 - No problem.
ReadySetGo 4.5 - No problem.
ReadySetShow 1.0 - No problem.
SmartForm Assistant/Designer 1.1v1 - Place rotated text on mailing labels
template does not print onto every label when printing to Personal
LaserWriter LS and StyleWriter.
Statview SE+ Graphics 1.03 - No problem.
Studio 1 1.0 - No problem.
Studio 8 1.1 - No problem.
SuperCard 1.5 - No problem.
SuperPaint 2.0a - When printing complicated text and graphics to
the Personal LaserWriter LS, some objects do not print.
UltraPaint 1.02 - No problem.
Vellum 1.0 - No problem.
WingZ 1.1 - When "center" page setup option is selected, extra blank
pages are printed out to the Personal LaserWriter SC and LS.
WordPerfect 1.0.5 - No problem.
WriteNow 2.2 - When printing to the StyleWriter, occasionally characters
overlap.
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