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- From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Is This A PostScript Driver Bug? Or Not Enough Memory In My Printer?
- Message-ID: <13271@optilink.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 01:19:03 GMT
- Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
- Lines: 32
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- I am using Word for Windows, 2.0b, Windows 3.1, using PostScript printer
- driver v3.5. I find some documents won't print completely on my TI
- microLaser PS35. On a 25 page document, about 6-9 pages in (depending
- on the number of TrueType fonts that get embedded in the output), it
- stops printing, part way through a page -- in some cases, part way
- through a line of text!
-
- If I print the entire document in sections, everything prints.
-
- The same problem appears if I print the PostScript to a file, and
- print it with a COPY command from DOS, so that tells me it's not
- a problem of timeouts in Windows.
-
- If I insert the ehandler.ps PostScript error handler, it complains
- about "limitcheck" on the MT-Symbol TrueType font. So I removed
- all the TrueType fonts, and used only built-in printer fonts.
- The problem moves from page 6 to page 9. But still, "limitcheck"
- messages. It's not at all clear from the context what limit
- was exceeded.
-
- Running the same output to an Apple LaserWriter II here at work,
- it works like a charm.
-
- This suggests to me that I am running out of RAM in the laser
- printer. Anyone know for sure? It sure would be nice if the
- PostScript printer driver, rather than just going "Splat!" would
- print out a discrete little message on the page, like: "Not enough
- memory to print such a complicated page."
- --
- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- "Foxes prefer rabbits with short claws." -- Nadja Adolf
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