Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 6.0.2 laserwriter bug (and slowness)
Message-ID: <4770@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 88 23:30:44 GMT
References: <74884@sun.uucp> <3366@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <3366@tekig4.TEK.COM> briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm) 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.
>
>Have definitely NEVER seen this one, and we have 10 Macs driving 2 LW+ at the
>office. Nor have I seen it in my home system, Mac+ & LW+, downloading the Stone
>set repeatedly.
> (etc.)

A few months ago I had a similar problem using XPress (and only XPress; 
everything else printed fine).  I phoned Quark (the makers of XPress) and was
told that they had a minor inconsistency with the lates Laserwriter software
(I had just upgraded to 6).  If there was a consistent cause for the problem,
I never found it.  They advised reverting to the previous versions of the LW
stuff until they could send me an update.  I did, and they did, and everything
has been fine since.  Why didn't they send the update automatically?  Not
everyone had the problem.  I have no idea whether this has any bearing on your
problem but you might consider the same courses of action.

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank