Hypercard Printing == Death

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From: gillies
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1989 06:12

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What am I doing wrong with Hypercard 1.2.2?

I wanted to make a hypercard stack to print nametags.  I created the
picture, and the text fields (4 fields per card).  I don't have a
laserwriter, so I always spool my printing jobs to a file.  If I
"print card", it takes 47K, a little high, considering a screen bitmap
only requires 22K of memory.  But if I "Print Stack" on 4 cards, it
takes 1.2 RIDICULOUS MEGABYTES TO STORE!!?!  And we need to print 200
cards?!?!

This is outrageous.  I can't afford to upload these monster files to
*any* printer, even at 9600 baud.  What am I doing wrong?  Using
Hypercard?


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu   UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies

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