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From: tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problems with Printmonitor
Message-ID: <9114@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 28 Apr 88 07:09:21 GMT
References: <50956@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <50956@sun.uucp> chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>Consider this a combination warning to the masses and public RFE for Apple
>to fix Printmonitor....

First, thanks for the feedback.  I'm going to respond to your problems
one by one.

>So here's my first RFE for PrintMonitor: Allow me to define what page to
>restart the print job at. I can always go back and reprint the job and
>specify a starting point, but why should I have to waste forty minutes of my
>computers time regenerating something that already exists? I've already got
>the print job. Why can't PrintMonitor simply count pages until it hits the 
>place it needs to start? It already knows how many pages are in the print
>job, so it's obviously able to count pages -- this new functionality seems
>trivial to add.

Good suggestion, but easier said than done.  PrintMonitor has no idea how
many pages are in the job, its the Laserwriter driver telling you that
information.  I still think its a good idea, but not an overnight change.

>On to problem number two. This is rather insidious. I've got a 600K print
>job that's unprintable in printmonitor because the memory segment is too
>small. Printmonitor wants to know if I want to print it again. Well, no, not
>until I grow the memory. So I "suspend" printing indefinitely. Printmonitor
>obliges, and sits there waiting for me to start the printer again.
>
>PrintMonitor has no "Quit" button, or "Quit" menu item. There is absolutely
>no way I can make PrintMonitor die. Unless PrintMonitor dies, I can't change
>the memory allocation through the Get Info dialog. 

PrintMonitor will quit when it has nothing in its queue is ready to print.
If your job is suspended indefinitely, simply click on a finder window
and it will go away.  I'm not defending the lack of a quit item, just
pointing out a workaround.

						_emt

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