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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: More RSG 4.5 complaints
Message-ID: <83992@sun.uucp>
Date: 5 Jan 89 19:06:00 GMT
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Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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>2.  Chuq mentioned that 4.5 is a tremendous memory hog, but he didn't make
>it clear that it is also a *disk* hog.  Converting a 4.0a RSG document to
>4.5 format roughly doubles the disk space occupied by the document.  This is
>for good-size documents (tens of pages), so it's not just a question of
>somewhat more overhead for font tables.  Does Letraset own stock in some
>disk drive companies???

This is *not* what I've seen. My 315K 4.0a document grew to 355K. this is
because the now keep font-width tables inside so you don't have line breaks
changing if you change System files. Your massive growth might be related
to your other problem with the fonts, but while 4.5 documents do grow
somewhat, massive growth isn't typical.


Chuq Von Rospach	Editor/Publisher, OtherRealms		chuq@sun.COM

When you're up to your *ss in alligators, it's hard to remember your initial
objective was to drain the swamp.