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In article <1190@adobe.UUCP> gelphman@adobe.UUCP (David Gelphman) writes:
>In article <17006@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Alex Lau) writes:
>>However, if you get a hard disk, I'd recommend you get more memory as
>>well. The LaserWriter keeps a listing of the font names in RAM, and this
>>slows down printing if you've got something like the Adobe Font Library
>>hard disk attatched to your printer.
>>--- Alex
>    This is not correct, the LaserWriter does not keep a list of disk font
>names in RAM. What is true is that versions of the Apple
>LaserWriter driver prior to version 6.0 had performance problems with
>printers with lots of fonts available. If you use a printer with lots
>of fonts on the disk (such as Adobe Font Folio(tm), then make sure you
>upgrade to version 6.0 of the LaserWriter driver. 
>David Gelphman
>Adobe Systems Incorporated

This is partially untrue, as well. BMUG uses LaserWriter
and Laser Prep 6.0 all the time, and the Font Folio (tm)
slowed down the NTX with 2 Megs of RAM considerably.

Where it used to take 30 seconds to image a page, it was
taking 2 minutes. That's what I consider a major slowdown.
And once the hard disk was disconnected and the LaserWriter
was cycled, everything was fine and dandy and as fast as
ever. I was told then that the problem was that the font
names were stored in RAM, and that impaired the imaging
speed.

That's where I got my info; where'd you get yours? :-)

--- Alex