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In article <1iceg0INNbpk@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg Cook|xxxxxx) writes:
>From article <1icbvqINNf6b@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, by gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg Cook|xxxxxx):

>1.  Make sure you have SET TEMP=c:\<your temp directory> in your
>    autoexec.bat.  Don't use a RAM disk for your temp directory.
>    Temp directory should have at least 6 Meg free.

Hmmmm... why not use a RAM disk if you have RAM to spare? Size
limitations might be one problem, but I have heard of someone 
using Stacker on a RAMdisk and getting incredible speed increases
with Corel Draw. Stacker does 2 things to your RAM disk. First,
since temp files and metafiles are highly compressible you get
a large increase in available space (he reported 12:1 compression
ratios). Second, you trade CPU cycles with throughput over the 
RAM bus (this helps greatly with a fast CPU and a real hard drive,
don't know if it helps with a RAM disk).

>8.  Use PCL mode on your printer rather than Postscript for jobs that
>    don't need postscript (ie fancy fonts or CorelDraw).

>9.  Use internal printer fonts rather than downloadable fonts.
>    (ie. The TT font Arial prints 3 times faster than ATM Helvetica)

_This_ will speed things up tremendously. One problem, of course,
is that this user is printing faxen. 





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