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From: flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: USERS OF MS EXCEL -> Wingz
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Date: 14 Jun 89 17:38:02 GMT
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Reply-To: flowers@cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers)
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>I have been using Wingz on my Plus, and it is perfectly useable, and
>much faster than Excel.  Then only problem is when you do 3D graphs - 
>these are real slow, and it updates them (redrawing the entire graph)
>much too often.

The 3D graph redrawing is very painful (9000 floating point datapoints
on a 5mb MacII takes a minute or so, depending on which 3D graph is
chosen).  Fortunately, you can abort graph redrawing by command-.  The
graphs themselves, and options, are nice.

My current problem with Wingz is printing these graphs.  Output takes
several minutes to prepare on the Mac and then over 40 minutes to come
out of the laserwriter (I don't know how much over because I went to
lunch).  This is with superlaserspool -- without it the document
preparation freezes my mac even longer, although overall output may be
less.  When I called them, they said that the output is in quickdraw,
and with so many datapoints, takes a long time to convert to
postscript.

Does anyone have any suggestions for speeding up graph printing?  Is
there some utility or method for converting quickdraw to postscript
that would make output less painful?  How do the other graphing
programs do with this kind of data?

thanks,
Margot Flowers 
Flowers@CS.UCLA.EDU 
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