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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: AppleShare spooling
Summary: Bug?  Maybe.  Kind of short sighted? Yes...
Message-ID: <5555@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 89 04:57:57 GMT
References: <8902021917.AA18189@NMSU.Edu>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <8902021917.AA18189@NMSU.Edu>, tjh+atalk.errors@ANDREW.CMU.EDU writes:
> Here's an interesting problem with the AppleShare spooler:
> 
> When we set up our Mac AppleShare network for our student Mac Lab, we ran 
> into a rather annoying bug.  The AppleShare spooler is consistently flushing
> MacDraw 1.95 documents.  I think we've narrowed the problem down to documents
> with rotated text.  Either MacDraw is producing unacceptable postscript (sounds
> unlikely) or AppleShare is too picky in what it considers acceptable postscript
> Anyway, I'd like to know what I can do to rectify the problem (if anything).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Patrick Gaughan	                  Programmer of Gor
> pgaughan@nmsu.edu                 New Mexico State University

Here  into the same problem with Cricket Draw.  It seems that the AppleShare
Print Spooler only allows 255 character postscript records, and many drawing
programs can produce records that are longer than that, especially in
the more complicated text rotations and large (wide) line drawings.  We also
noticed that (in Cricket Draw) if you grouped objects together so that the
corners of the "group box" (for the lack of a better name) are not on the page,
the job will be flushed, also.

I would assume that you are seeing the error "Flushed: Offending Command <x>"
where x could be just about any command.

This is not a bug with Cricket Draw or MacDraw (in my opinion, assuming that
my assumptions above are correct).  They will print correctly if you set the
spooler in direct print (bypass) mode.  It is a matter of opinion if this is
a bug with the print spooler, or just an oversight (or is there a difference).
I believe that this should be fixed, though.

Michael Niehaus
Apple Student Rep
Ball State University
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