🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <17227@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Alex Lau) writes:
>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:
>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.
>--- Alex
    I don't understand why the print times were slowed so much if they
were really using LaserWriter/LaserPrep 6.0 and the appropriate version
of PrintMonitor (which also comes on the Apple Color disk w/LaserWriter 6.0).

What the Apple printshop does at the beginning of the job is
query the printer for all available fonts. If you have a printer
without a disk, typically this is 35 font names or so. If you have
a printer with Font Folio(tm), then this can be 500 font names or
so. Prior to LaserWriter driver version 6.0, the method used to
extract the font names from the printer and store them on the Mac
for use during the print job took a considerable amount of time when
the list of fonts was large. Times of a couple of minutes were not
unheard of. This was improved quite a bit with LaserWriter 6.0. 
It isn't clear to me that the amount of RAM in a printer affects
this part of the process in any significant way. If indeed there
is a problem then there is probably something unusual happening
that hasn't been uncovered yet. Again, I strongly
suggest that users of printers with significant numbers of fonts available,
upgrade to LaserWriter 6.0. Of course I suggest that most everyone
do so as well ;-)
Hope this helps,
David Gelphman
Adobe Systems Incorporated