Can Macs reliably handle Zip files?

Richard Maine wrote:
> Robert Montgomery <info-block@stargate_tech.net> wrote:
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> I agree with Fred that this doesn't sound like it has anything to do
> with downloading or with zip. In fact, I wonder why you even bring up
> zip, as I don't see the correlation. If there is a correlation, you
> certainly don't provide any data about it. The word "zip" doesn't even
> appear in your posting except in the subject and the question of the
> first line. I have to guess that the files in question must have been
> zipped, because otherwise it seems a complete non-sequitur. Even then,
> you say that the problems aren't occurring in any other files, but you
> don't give any correlating information about why that makes you think of
> zip. For example, you don't say something like that these are the only
> files that were zipped.
>
> Without some such information, it just sounds like you pulled "zip" out
> of thin air for no obvious reason. One might as well ask whether Macs
> can reliably handle files on Wednesdays. Yes, it is Wednesday (at least
> here and now), but that's not much basis for suspecting that it has
> anything to do with the problem. Sure, it is technicaly possible to have
> a bug that shows up only on Wednesday, but one needs a little more
> concrete basis for suspicion before one starts looking into every random
> thing like that, because there are literally an infinite number of such
> random things one could ask.
>
> I'm not sure what the problem is, but whatever it is, it sounds like an
> issue with the original files. If that's the case, there isn't any point
> to investigating alternative ways to get those original files. If the
> files are bad, then the files are bad. Getting them via dvd isn't going
> to change that. Nor is, to pull another random thing out of the air,
> accessing them via a dialup connection instead of broadband.

The problem is tricky to solve because it's hard to find patterns. I
thought the problem was only page setups of those files, but sometimes
now it's occurring in other, old files and new ones that I create.

It's usually the "Use document size: 30 x 45 cm (Sheet - No Margins)
paper setting that's stuck in the Destination Paper size, although
occasionally it's been other page setups, like A1.

It's also happening now in my Epson Stylus Photo 2400 printer driver. I
have a TIFF, for example, that's 24 inches wide by seven inches high,
but File > Print > Print, Paper Handling says the Destination paper size
is Use Document's Size: Half Letter", even though I made a custom
24-by-7 inch page setup first.

Robert

Robert Montgomery <info-block@stargate_tech.net> wrote:
 
>
> My Graphic Converter has expired.

It will still work. It's just that advanced stuff like batch conversion
will be disabled.

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
--
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

In article <vp%Ij.15228$9X3.7741@edtnps82>,
Robert Montgomery <info-block@stargate_tech.net> wrote:

> It's also happening now in my Epson Stylus Photo 2400 printer driver. I
> have a TIFF, for example, that's 24 inches wide by seven inches high,
> but File > Print > Print, Paper Handling says the Destination paper size
> is Use Document's Size: Half Letter", even though I made a custom
> 24-by-7 inch page setup first.

So, can you _sometimes_ print out a 24 x 7 image correctly? Or _never_?
--
W. Oates

Warren Oates wrote:
> In article <vp%Ij.15228$9X3.7741@edtnps82>,
>  Robert Montgomery <info-block@stargate_tech.net> wrote:
> 
>
> So, can you _sometimes_ print out a 24 x 7 image correctly? Or _never_?

Yes I can print correctly with most of my files; it's a minority of my
files that are having this page setup problem.