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From: dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FKey / new system bug?
Message-ID: <7212@apple.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 17:56:51 GMT
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Reply-To: dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith)
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In article <22582@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>Apple, you've got to work in your testing. Here we have a destructive
>interaction between FKEYs and the Disk Iniitalizer package.
We have a very large testing organization which works very hard.  No matter
how large a testing organzation we have, however, or how dedicated, bugs will
slip through.  Thank you for reporting this one.

>You also:
>1.) can't use color quickdraw to Apple's printer drivers (Come on guys,
>they are both your code, and System 4.2 is a second official release, at
>least it shouldn't crash.)
There has been some traffic on this problem on Usenet and elsewhere recently.
We have tried to reproduce it several times, looked at the code, etc., and
we have been unable to find any problem whatsoever.  I have successfully
printed color images from within both MicroSoft Word and beta copies of
FullWrite.  As far as I know, this has worked since system 4.1 (I was
certainly printing color images before the Mac II was announced).

Of course, I'm referring to printing color images in black and white; we
certainly don't print them in color yet.  However, there are no crashes
we are aware of.  There is special code in CopyBits on the Mac II which
checks to see if a StdBits bottleneck is installed in an old GrafPort.
If so, it converts any PixMaps to BitMaps before passing them to the
bottleneck.

If you have any information to the contrary, such as documents or
applications which cannot print color images, please let me know via
mail (I should point out that many applications, such as MacWrite and
WriteNow, have a bug whereby they cannot handle PICTs greater than 32K
in size, a category most color images fit into.  This is strictly an
application bug and unrelated to system software).


-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.

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