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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
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- Subject: Re: Slow printing with FCalc
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 23:39:34 GMT
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- Craig Cope (1676775241@amuc.mtroyal.ab.ca) wrote:
- : On Mon 96-Jan-8, David Meyer said:
- :
- : It is kinda slow isn't it. I'm using an '030/25 and its still slow. At
-
- The guy with the Warp 4040 has 10x my processing power, and it
- took two minutes for a page - and that in PostScript.
-
- : least Final Calc has a built in spooler of sorts so that you can get back to
- : work on a spreadsheet fairly quickly. If you don't see this spooler come up
- : when you print there may be some setting to enable it. Mine just appeared
-
- The spooler seemed like a GREAT idea at first blush. It may,
- though, be the reason that printing takes so long. If so, maybe it should
- be an option rather than the only choice. If it isn't the problem, maybe
- they can work on FW so that it can also use the spooler.
-
- : the first time I tried to print. I'm still having some trouble getting
- : printouts to looke the way I want, but I haven't worked at it a lot yet.
-
- My luck with linking screen fonts and printer fonts has varied.
- My first shot was absolute garbage - most everything printed out in a
- particular SanSerif font. Many attempts later, over half of the fonts on
- the FinalCalc Standard Fonts List are linked to a sensible NimbusQ
- choice. Getting a font right once does not mean it will be right the next
- time, though, even if you don't mess with it in between. Saphire
- regularly accepts SoftOldE and Bookman usually takes B, but Palatino
- first took, then rejected, P. Sorry, gotta go, starting to foam and froth!
-