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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: PageMaker 3.0 Problems
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Date: 9 Jan 89 18:34:52 GMT
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In article <1923@runx.ips.oz> clubmac@runx.ips.oz (Macintosh Users Group) writes:

#>I am disconcerted with a problem I have been having with PageMaker
#>3.0. Why is it that when I delete all pages except the first, and
#>delete all the objects (text & graphics), clear out the master items,
#>then "save as" the file, that this 'empty' pagemaker document is
#>438K!!!

#>I'm putting together our Club's newsletter, and want to keep the first
#>3 pages of the magazine for every issue, so I can retain the format,
#>and this OVERHEAD IS DRIVING ME AROUND THE BEND!

#>Can anyone help me? Has this problem been solved with later versions
#>of PageMaker? (I have 3.0)

#>Thanks in advance,
#>Jason Haines - President, Club Mac
#>Australia's largest Macintosh Users Group, with over 1500 members.

One of the undocumented weirdnesses of PageMaker is that when you
just save, it seems to keep incrementing the size of your file.
But if you choose "Save As" and use the same name as your file
currently has, it will then squeeze it into its minimum space.
You say that this is what you did, but I suspect that you
really mean that you chose "Save" and not "Save As." When
someone told me about this trick, I was immediately able to
recover a few megs of my hard disk that PageMaker had hoarded.
I have the updated version of 3.0 (3.01) and the situation is
unchanged.

Steve Goldfield