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From: clubmac@runx.ips.oz (Macintosh Users Group)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: PageMaker 3.0 Problems
Message-ID: <1928@runx.ips.oz>
Date: 13 Jan 89 11:01:13 GMT
References: <1923@runx.ips.oz> <18875@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: clubmac@runx.OZ (Australia's Largest Mac Users Group)
Organization: RUNX  Un*x Timeshare. Sydney, Australia.
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In article <18875@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
>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)
>
>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

No, I have indeed tried the "Save as" trick with PageMaker 3.0. However, after
several attempts, the 'empty' file is still 438K!


Jason Haines - President, Club Mac
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