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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield;232HMB;3-6292;;MF62)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Font Downloading in PageMaker
Message-ID: <1991May24.201353.28859@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 24 May 91 20:13:53 GMT
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In article <1991May24.190753.11675@crash.cts.com> gregpen@crash.cts.com (Greg Penetrante) writes:
#>In article <1991May24.000013.23170@beaver.cs.washington.edu> graham@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham) writes:
#>>PageMaker for the Mac downloads fonts far too much. Rather than
#>>building a list of all fonts used in the document and then dowloading
#>>each once, it appears to download the font anew each time the font
#>>is called in the document. This greatly slows down printing and
#>>creates overly large PostScript files when printing to disk.
#>>Is there some way to cure this problem?
#>>
#>
#> Stephen,
#>   In response to printers with only 1-2 meg of memory, the Aldus drivers have
#>to download fonts one-at-a-time as to not tax the laser printer's memory. Older
#>versions of PageMaker allowed you to change printer drivers to change this, but
#>it seems newer versions after 3.0 only allow you to use Aldus driver. 

I, too, thought that was the case because the driver option
was removed from the printer option screen. But, if you hold
down the option key while you select Print in 4.0, behold, you get
the Apple driver. And something must have been done to soup
up the Apple driver, which now prints reversals (white on black
type) unlike some older version I used. (I'm using system 6.04.)
I'll have to experiment to see if there's any reason to use
the Aldus driver, which doesn't print in the background.

Steve Goldfield
College of Engineering
UC Berkeley