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From: u545731798ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (L. Greg DeMichillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 6.0.2 laserwriter bug (and slowness)
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Date: 29 Oct 88 04:50:59 GMT
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In article <74884@sun.uucp> chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>Has anyone else noticed problems with the new laserwriter stuff in 6.0.2? If
>you turn on "unlimited downloadable fonts" it will occasionally botch out a
>font change and print some text out in Courier. It's not cleanly
>reproducible, but I see it fairly consistently.
>
>Also, while they do document that printing with that option turned on will
>be slower, I find the speed loss to be somewhere between painful and
>unacceptable. A page with four fonts (garamond, garamond bold, and Univers
>in both 45 and 65) will print out in a couple of minutes normally -- last
>night, turning on the option, it took 20. ugh!
>
>
>Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ
>Editor/Publisher, OtherRealms

I too have seen the mysterious font switching problem.  I just assumed that
it was Microsoft that botched things (usually a safe assumption :-) )

I haven't noticed any speed differences, but I am using an NTX with a 20MB 
hard disk with all my fonts loaded on the disk.  So it would appear that the
bottleneck is in the transmission of fonts.  Suprise, suprise.


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