laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (09/10/84)
From: JThomson.es@XEROX.ARPA Alan, Here are some 8700/9700 font facts: 1) ALL fonts specified in the current PDE (whether specified from a DJDE or a JDE) are loaded. 2) ALL fonts from the current form are loaded. 3) Duplicate form and PDE fonts are loaded only once. 4) In duplex, fonts for both the front side and the back side must be loaded before a sheet is picked. Duplicate front and back side fonts are loaded only once. 5) The 8700/9700 Ethernet host is the only one in which font requirements are dynamically calculated on a page by page basis. Joel
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) (09/22/84)
From: Alan Crosswell <US.ALAN%CU20B@COLUMBIA>
Does anybody know if it is possible to find out how much font memory a
9700 has? Is it possible to have an incorrect sysgen that will make
the machine think it has less or does it figure out how much font
memory it has dynamically?
I ask this because I tried running a job that combined scribe output
and a form overlay. The overlay used fonts PR211E, PR111E, UN108E, a
68K logo, and the special forms fonts that always gets loaded
(according to my understanding of the manual). Adding up the numbers
came to somewhere under 256K, so no fragmentation problem even. The
scribe file uses a DJDE to request a PDE which contains several fonts
and the data contains a fontindex requesting font #1 (FFMT10) and then
magic codes in each record to request font #6 (UN108E). Our machine
supposedly has 1024 Kbits of font memory. If I believe the manual
when it says that only needed fonts are loaded during page setup, then
the most I can be using is two 256K segments of font memory. I get a
font memory exceeded message after first getting a bunch of messages
about reorganing font memory (sorry, I forget the message number).
This indicates to me that my machine only has 256K font memory. Am I
missing something? Does the fact that my form overlay and the dynamic
PDE both ask for one or more of the same fonts have anything to do
with it (does it not know that UN108E was already loaded once)?
Thanks in advance.
/a
PS: Scribe is pretty dumb about having a fontindex of 1 and then immediately
using magic codes to load font 6. Is the machine as dumb as scribe?
Does it load font 1 even though it's never used? I wouldn't blame it if
it did.
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