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From: eoshough@nmsu.edu (Mel Callender)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: PageMaker 4.0 + Networks = Nothing Useful
Message-ID: <EOSHOUGH.91Jan23124544@dante.nmsu.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 91 19:45:44 GMT
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(This is aimed at all you PageMaker guru's out there)

I'm in charge of a Mac network, and just recently I was handed a big
wad of Student PageMaker 4.0 disks, told to install it on our network
and on various hard drives.  ( We have 21 licenses, and in the zone it
was installed there are only 15 machines, and the other 6 go on Mac
II's with harddrives.)  Fine.  After a serious amount of fooling
around, the student version of PageMaker 4.0 lives on the network and
on the 6 Mac II's with harddisks.  Great.  Now, I try to print from
these machines, notably the Mac II installations, and the job is
flushed by the LaserWriter (who is connected to an AppleShare
spooler).  More fooling around results in replacing Aldus's Aldus Prep
with a fake constructed with a Laser Prep whose type and creator
has been changed to those of the Aldus Prep. ( Follow me so far? :) )

This seems to work alright, so no problem. >>BEEEEPPPP<< wrong.

PageMaker 3.0x continues to live in another zone with shares the
printers that PageMaker 4.0 uses.  This causes a Prep crash in the
printer because the 3.0x are using the 3.0 Aldus Prep. PageMaker 4.0
would try to print, and when it saw the old Prep in the LaserWriter,
it would say 'No way, Jose' and cancel the job.

Quick call to Aldus confirms that by substituting the Aldus Prep 4.0
for the old Aldus Prep 3.0 will solve the problem.  So I spend better
part of a day upgrading every installation of PageMaker 3.0 that could
conceivable print to my printer to the new Prep file, and breath a
sigh of relief.  Too soon.  Now it seems completely non-deterministic
whether a job from PageMaker 3.0x or PageMaker 4.0 will print or be
flushed.

Needless to say, I'm am pretty frustrated.

And so, I turn to the 'Million Dollar' net.

If anyone has encountered this problem, or has a practical suggestion
for a different approach ( i.e. one that doesn't involve major
hardware/software upgrades ), or comments in general, please mail me 
at the address below.

If the above needs clarification ( with my state of mind, I'm sure it
does! ) please do not hesitate to ask for it.  Flames for buying
PageMaker and not something else will be completely ignored, I had no
choice in the matter.

Waiting anxiously..


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