Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!nmsu!opus!eoshough From: eoshough@nmsu.edu (Azel The Destroyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Getting PageMaker 4.0 to use Apple driver Message-ID: Date: 12 Dec 90 17:17:43 GMT References: <1990Dec10.192633.7501@umiami.ir.miami.edu> <41177@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@NMSU.Edu Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc Organization: NMSU Computer Science Lines: 42 In-reply-to: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu's message of 11 Dec 90 15:57:25 GMT clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) writes in reference to subject: >Make a copy of your modified Laser Prep. Change type and creator to >ALDP/ALD4. Rename it Aldus Prep. Put it in the Aldus folder (which >is inside the System Folder). Oh yeah, rename the REAL Aldus Prep >first. Cross fingers. Print. IF it works THEN send profuse thanks >ELSE don't send profuse thanks... I gave this a try, and it seems to work just fine, so.. #include The next problem I've encountered is that Aldus has designed PageMaker 4.0 with the assumption that whoever buys it will use it off of a harddrive. This is not the case. I'd like to run PageMaker off of an AppleShare server in a lab enviroment where not all machines have harddrives. The problem as I see it is that PageMaker is dependent on a folder it calls Aldus in the system folder. That's where it keeps printer description files, dictionary goo, extra PM4 resources, import and export filters, and a host of other things. A full installation of relevant printer discription files, and import and export filters amounts to about 1.2 megabytes of stuff that PageMaker needs to work. This would be ok if we had high density drives in all the machines, but this is not the case. Feel free to send any flames, suggestions, requests for clarification, and especially solutions to eoshough@nmsu.edu. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ ~ | Erik O'Shaughnessy |\/\/\/| ~ | Small Systems | | ~ | New Mexico State University | * | ~ o========== | Las Cruces, NM USA | (x)(x) |_|==== | eoshough@dante.nmsu.edu C _) === |------------------------------------ | ,___| === |"Do not follow the NULL pointer, | / | for that path leads to chaos, /____\ Die Bart! Die! | and madness." - me | \ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------