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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
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Subject: Re: PageMaker 4.0 + Networks = Nothing Useful
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Date: 23 Jan 91 23:00:30 GMT
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In article <EOSHOUGH.91Jan23124544@dante.nmsu.edu> eoshough@nmsu.edu (Mel Callender) writes:

Problem of PageMaker 4.0 and a spooler, not printing.

Here's what Aldus told me when I tried to print with
SuperLaserSpool; actually I don't think it was Aldus
but the company currently responsible for SuperLaserSpool.
If you try to print a complex PageMaker file, the spooler
tries to stick all the commands into a spool file--downloaded
fonts, etc. The file gets very big. At that point, it gives
up and nothing prints. I think a small file will print,
though I haven't bothered to try. As a result, I keep
printing from PageMaker in the foreground and cursing
as it ties up my machine.

I can understand the inability to handle very large spool
files. What I find incompetent is that no error message
is sent to the user. Nothing at all happens.

Steve Goldfield