Linux-specific technical problems

[Bob Warren]

A few days back I had 2 outstanding Rev/Linux questions that I hadn't 
managed to clear up on-List. One of them was elegantly solved by Mark 
Wieder. The other did not have an immediate answer:

In Rev Linux 2.6.1, can foreign symbols (with accents) be printed on the 
printer or not?

Some discussion has taken place off-List between myself, Technical 
Support (Jacque) and Don Jungk who has been extremely helpful.

The short answer to the question appears to be "No, not in #2.6.1".

The first thing to note is the following extract from the Rev Help 
(Print command) in this respect:

"Cross-platform note:  On Mac OS and Windows systems, the print command 
uses the current printer. On Unix systems, the print command creates a 
PostScript file and runs the program specified in the printCommand 
property, with the file as input."

The trouble is that as far as any of us have discovered, there is no way 
that Rev can create a correctly formatted PS file when attempting to 
print a whole card. If the text contained by the fields is entirely in 
English, then there is no problem, but if it contains accented 
characters, Rev gets its knickers in a twist and produces a file which 
cannot even be displayed, let alone printed.

Our colleague Don is so well up on the question of PS files, that he has 
diagnosed the problem in the format of the PS file produced by Rev under 
these circumstances and corrected it! The version he produced displays 
and prints perfectly!

Technical support are therefore registering it as a bug, and although it 
might not have a workaround in Rev 2.6.1, it is to be hoped that this 
difficulty will be fixed before the next Rev/Linux release.

Bob