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Article #2584Re: Font Downloading in PageMaker
From: Greg Penetrante
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 19:07
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 19:07
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In article <1991May24.000013.23170@beaver.cs.washington.edu> graham@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham) writes: >PageMaker for the Mac downloads fonts far too much. Rather than >building a list of all fonts used in the document and then dowloading >each once, it appears to download the font anew each time the font >is called in the document. This greatly slows down printing and >creates overly large PostScript files when printing to disk. >Is there some way to cure this problem? > Stephen, In response to printers with only 1-2 meg of memory, the Aldus drivers have to download fonts one-at-a-time as to not tax the laser printer's memory. Older versions of PageMaker allowed you to change printer drivers to change this, but it seems newer versions after 3.0 only allow you to use Aldus driver.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!ucbvax!pasteur!dog.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!crash!gregpen From: gregpen@crash.cts.com (Greg Penetrante) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Font Downloading in PageMaker Message-ID: <1991May24.190753.11675@crash.cts.com> Date: 24 May 91 19:07:53 GMT References: <1991May24.000013.23170@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA Lines: 14