[Maptitude] Printer lock-ups and foul-ups

[Murray Rice]

Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html I'm wondering if any of you have experienced difficulties printing from Maptitude 4.0. In the past, I've found Maptitude to be the one application of mine that sometimes has problems printing to my HP DeskJet 1000C and Adobe Acrobat PDF Writer 3.0 in Windows 98 (I also use Office 97 and have had no problems printing to either the HP or PDF).   I'll offer a partial list of some difficulties, in the hope that some other Maptitude users may have encountered the same (sorry about the length of this, but I thought this might be of interest to some):   1. occasional lock-ups when printing layouts (usually not just straight maps), most often to my HP, but also a couple of times to Acrobat; these have occurred maybe 10%-20% of the time over the last year or two.   2. differences in manual label locations "on screen" vs. "on the printed page" (i.e. a place name shifted to the left or right between the two, sometimes by the length of the word). This occurs in printing to both the HP printer and the Acrobat PDF Writer; in Acrobat, the differences between Maptitude and the PDF file can still be seen while still viewing the PDF on screen in Acrobat.   3. an inability to have cross-hatching in Maptitude maps show up at all in PDF files created by Maptitude via the PDF Writer   4. in printing PDF files from Acrobat (file generated originally by Maptitude), color reversals in a small number of seemingly random polygons (e.g. sales areas, census tracts) but perfect in the rest of the map (the PDF files look fine on screen, the problem occurs when printing from Acrobat)   5. in printing a very large PDF file (generated by Maptitude) to a 42" inch width page, the disappearance of all map features except labels 3/4 of the way down the printed page (with the upper part of the page printing beautifully); note, this is printing a PDF directly from Acrobat to an HP DesignJet 1050C. Again, the PDF viewed perfectly on screen, but printed with the same flaw three times.   I should note, I've reinstalled Maptitude, my HP printer driver, Acrobat, and Windows at least twice each, with no success. I've also tried installing Maptitude and the HP printer driver on a completely different machine, with similar problems. Over the weekend, after printing three layouts I could not print anything from Maptitude to my HP printer without a complete lock up, despite reinstallations of Maptitude and the printer driver (other packages still print perfectly). I can currently print from Maptitude to Acrobat PDF Writer the same as before, which is the only thing keeping me and my clients happy right now!   I realize that some of these problems could be the fault of the printer driver and Adobe Acrobat (as in perhaps #4 above), but I'm frustrated that Maptitude is the only application I have that has acted this way in printing.   Anyone had any similar problems? Of even more interest, any solutions?   Murray Rice   Altavision Geographics Tel: (800) 436-3632 / (306) 955-4722 Fax (306) 955-4723 To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]