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Subject:PM6 PRINTING PROBLEM From:Craig Pfeifer <cep -at- CS -dot- PURDUE -dot- EDU> Date:Wed, 4 Dec 1996 03:39:54 -0500
Ok.. I used to think that I was a computer whiz, but this one has me
massively stumped. So, I'm asking for a bit of help, suggestions, prayers,
mantras, runes to cast...
So I've got Windows 95 ( I know, I know, don't start... ) and
PageMaker 6.0. My machine has 32MB of RAM, and a HP LaserJet 5L attached
(and correctly installed).
I have a PM6 publication that has a 219kb EPS watermark with some
Arial text lying on it. It doesn't print. I ask it to print and it just sits
there and churns. After a while, PM6 will stop responding to Win95 and I
have to kill it. I have tried converting EPS, PCT, GIF, and TIF formats
without any luck.
This publication started as a Mac PM5 file, but something went awry,
and I have since recreated all of the images & the text in PhotoShop and
PM6. This same publication printed just dandy on a Mac w/PM5.
Has anyone else had problems printing placed images in PM6?
Please respond privately (cep -at- cs -dot- purdue -dot- edu) and I'll summarize the
answers and post to the list...
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"The essential act of war is destruction, not neccessarily of human lives,
but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces...
materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable,
and hence, too intelligent" - George Orwell, _1984_
pgp key fingerprint = A8 41 99 36 4F D5 32 82 EB 79 6C 03 23 25 51 2B
Craig Pfeifer < cpfeifer -at- purdue -dot- edu >
