Finally got done with the copy (text) for the DTP project I bought 
Pagestream for. Started futzing with it, and discovered a few 
pesky things so far:

1    It doesn't have a header/footer provision unless you set it 
     up in text frames on the master page. The same is true for 
     page numbering. That's fine, but then I finally found a way 
     to turn off the master page in the document if you don't want 
     the h/f/pages #, but then you get no page number or guide 
     frames etc. So I've just been masking what I don't want with 
     blank frames.

1.1  The other "right-out-of-the-box" thing you need to do is set 
     printer offsets so it will print in the right position. 
     Publisher, once again, right on the layout menue had an 
     offset menue to set top and left margin offsets. The only way 
     I can see to do this in Pagestream is by jacking around with 
     the margin offsets themselves, which of course will leave all 
     your onscreen tools and alignment guides screwed up, and if 
     you spool out to disk to print elsewhere, or use another 
     printer, it'll be on Mars. Any ideas? Is that "Special" line 
     in the printer menue OK for sending printer codes?

2    It did *not* come with Epson Stylus drivers, and in spite of 
     Toad's display ad claiming "Any Printer" I think the printer 
     list is rather thin. I know Epson France was mentioned when I 
     first asked and maybe some other sources, but did anyone 
     ever get any Epson Stylus (800/300-or I think even the color 
     drivers are compatible? from France or elsewhere? My son has 
     been asking around too. Granted they do have an Epson 24 pin 
     driver and it works, and the vector fonts and/or the driver 
     is better than the Publisher package I was using before, but 
     it still ain't 360/360 dpi.

     I ran out and bought the hot new promise for all mankind in 
     printers about three years ago now, and have yet to find 
     drivers for it--drivers for the HP I brought back and traded 
     for the Stylus because HP wouldn't also work with my other 
     Epson-only cheap software, yes. Now the Stylus II is the big deal, 
     and no drivers for that either. Ironic or what?

3    I also have a Migraph hand scanner, and so far the 300/400 
     dpi allegedly 32 level grayscale TIF files look like crap 
     through the various viewers I've used and haven't yet printed 
     out anything close to the photographic/newspaper quality I 
     was hoping for. This may be due to the driver problem, as my 
     son printed some TIF/GIG files on his school's Mac and an HP 
     550 Deskjet that showed a lot more promise. I'm also guessing 
     that only reproducing at the same size scanned will avoid all 
     the dithering problems I've been warned about. Will reducing 
     it damage the quality or is the problem mostly enlarging it?

4    Last night nothing (first time) on the "Style" menue would 
     work. I highlighted some text, dropped down the menue, 
     selected "bold" and it blinked but did nothing. It's locked 
     into "normal." Turns out a very obtuse selection in the tag 
     menue should be toggled to "no styles" which implies it 
     *won't* accept styles, but it really means (since this 
     function is implemented backwards) that the tag style will 
     override all attempts to modify any text tagged with it 
     unless "no styles" is toggled. "Normal" doesn't mean "normal 
     unless modified by selecting and styling." It means "only 
     normal and that's it." In short, if you want to make "bold" a 
     word in your body text tag, you can't unless it is tagged "no 
     styles." The manual is no help in guessing at this, and no 
     sample or default documents are supplied to help either.

     In short, the tutorial or the manual in whole is not very 
     helpful in anything. (Hence you pay for the $39 online 
     helper!) You would think it would right off talk 
     about headers/footers and page numbers. Doesn't tell you how 
     anywhere--you have to figure it out. You have to wing a lot 
     of other things too, but at least it's fairly intuitive...

Any help or tips appreciated

Royce.Lerwick@Flight.Org

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