Manuals, advice, etc for WB3.1 printing, turboprint, and final wrter ver 5

[stefcep2]

In Devs/printers you will have some printer driver files.  Some will be from Workbench and some from Turboprint. I found its best to have one or the other, not both as there is the potential for conflict.  Keep the Turboprint one, and drag the workbench one from Devs/printers into Storage.  If you don't know which driver is  which then you could drag both and re-install Turboprint.  You may end up with duplicate lines in s/startup-sequence or s/user-startup afterwards, so delete on of those by opening with ed s/startup-sequence or ed s/user-startup in a cli/shell console.

Once you have the printer drivers properly installed then you may ahve to adjust margins either in the TurboPrefs utility, or within Final Writer form the Page layout prefs (I forget which menu that one is in).  Final Writer may also let you choose which printer.device to use: the generic Workbench one  which is called printer.device or the Turboprint one.  Chooes the Turboprint one.

It sounds like Wordworth is using the Turboprint driver and Final Writer the Workbench one.

[stefcep2]

Its been ages since I used WW or FW, but when I did I go the feeling that WW was coded in a more system friendly way and I never had any hassles printing from Turboprint with WW.  But WW and FW didn't each have the same capabilities, so sometimes WW was the better tool, sometimes FW was.

[stefcep2]

I think the best thing to do would be to get postscript working, as the choice for printing within Finalwriter is either postscript or graphics final.

Isn't there a postscript printing option in turboprint?

[stefcep2]

there is, but none of these buttons seem to do anything.  If I tell WW or final writer to print postsript, i get blank pieces of paper.

Is there a postscript.device that you can get Turboprint to print to instead of its turboprint.device from within Turboprefs?

AFAIR, when you install FW and WW you are given an option to install -in built printer drivers, and postscript is one driver option? You might have to choose the postscript one?

[stefcep2]

Doesn't TP have online help in amigaguide format?

[stefcep2]

Turbocalc used to bring up the amigaguide by hitting help.