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The trouble she is having cannot be
fixed by adjusting the offsets. The
ballot image is rotated to a landscape orientation whether she chooses Portrait
or Landscape in the printer properties.
The effect of this is that the ballot image is cut off because the long
dimension of the ballot image is on the short dimension of the paper. It is conceivable that she could use a paper
size with a width greater than 11” (if her print driver supports it – I’m not
sure) and adjust the offsets IF she is only ever going to use 11” ballots, but
she will be using 14” ballots for November elections. Adjusting the offsets is not a viable long-term solution. The driver she is using is specific to the
equipment that her print shop uses to output the postscript files. Other drivers have been tested and all
failed. I am conducting a campaign to get
Iredell to use a different print shop (such as Fayetteville printing) instead
of the rinky-dink local printer they have been using. Difficulties are encountered every time Iredell sends ballot
artwork to their local print shop. I
would appreciate the support of anyone involved with support in Iredell County
in my efforts to get them with a reliable print shop. Becky is warming to the idea a bit because of the ongoing
difficulties, although her Elections Board is reluctant to change. As a result of the problems they’ve been
having and the tight turnaround in preparation for the May 30 runoff, she is
sending laser-printed copies of her ballot images to her local printer who will
use them as camera-ready artwork. This
is completely non-standard, unacceptable, and fraught with peril for Global. We should all be making every effort to get
Iredell to change printers. I agree that it would be a good
thing to have Ghostview loaded onto her computer. I have already sent Becky a disk with lino.zip on it which she
should receive today, whereupon I will assist her in installing the Linotronic
630 V 3.3 J GES driver. This is the
driver that is used to send artwork to Fayetteville printing. Tyler -----Original
Message----- Becky
Galliher from Iredell County, NC is having trouble with her postscript files
that she sends to her printer. I have
taken a look at a sample postscript file in GhostView and I can see that she
needs to change the offsets with this particular Postscript Driver that she
has. The only problem is that the
computer that was set up in McKinney with Gems, does not have GhostView on
it. Also, she does not have the Gems
computer set up for the internet. Would
it be possible for someone in McKinney to burn her a CD with GhostView on it,
and could we also put on the same CD the different Postscript drivers that we
have on our FTP site. It may be
possible that with one of the Postscript drivers that we have on the FTP site,
that her printer will be able to accept the files with the default offsets. Thanks, Jeff Hintz Global
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