#V1.2 PPage Problems
25-May-89 18:51:02
Sb: #8506-#V1.2 PPage Problems
Fm: William Sharer 76426,112
To: Ed Silva 70507,134
Your lack of memory problem when printing dot-matrix is due to a need for CHIP
memory. I went through this with Gold Disk before. I've tried printing to
both Calcomp Colormaster and Tektronix 4693D printers without success. It seems
that ppage allocs a rastport in which it constructs a bitmap to be sent to the
printer. Since ppage is a rather memory intensive program there isn't much
CHIP memory left for the bitmap. It has to print in strips instead. The
problem with this is what happens to color printers such as the Calcomp and Tek
where this is a cyan ribbon pass, magenta, yellow and then possibly a black
ribbon pass (for the tek) to produce the color image. The strips force parts
of the picture to print on seperate pages! The techie at Gold Disk I talked to
about this didn't think this would be fixed by 1.2
mr bill