atai@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (see far ) (10/23/90)
Hello, Can anyone tell me how well does PageStream 2.0 work with a 1-meg Amiga? How many pages can you have? Is more memory needed in order to do anything useful with PageStream? Any info is appreciated.
kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) (10/23/90)
In article <13471@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> atai@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (see far ) writes: > > >Hello, Can anyone tell me how well does PageStream 2.0 work with a >1-meg Amiga? How many pages can you have? Is more memory needed in >order to do anything useful with PageStream? Any info is >appreciated. Haven't worked within 1 meg constraints, but, The 2.0 manual states "The maximum number of pages for a single document is 254, assuming sufficient free memory." The most I've done is around 10, & I didn't track memory usage when I was doing it. > useful: I would say that depends on what else you wish to have running in your environment whilst using PageStream. I usually loose around 600k when I invoke it. I consider PageStream extremely useful & pretty much leave it's toolbox hanging around on my workbench screen all the time now, but then & have a 5 meg 2500/20. I have run it with no problems on my A1000 with 2 meg ram & A590 also. PS2.0 also works very nicely with the virtual screen in Workbench 2.0 I made my workbench screen big enough for a full-size portrait or landscape page to let me just scroll around without having to redraw everything or resize. Pretty nice... My turn: Has anyone had success importing AegisDraw files into PS2.0? If so, how about AegisDraw files generated by Plplot :^)? Thanks ==================================================================== Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu "Well... can't you get a Novell card for your Cray !?" ====================================================================
LDSHANER@MTUS5.BITNET (Leon D. Shaner) (10/24/90)
----Stuff Deleted >Haven't worked within 1 meg constraints, but, > >The 2.0 manual states "The maximum number of pages for a single >document is 254, assuming sufficient free memory." The most I've done >is around 10, & I didn't track memory usage when I was doing it. I hope this is a typo... I own version 1.8 and it currently has a max number of pages of 254... The ad for upgrading to 2.0 says it has a new max number of pages of 1000... True, I generally work with small documents, but I got the notion once to print the manual from the PD C Tutor on a PostScript printer and I therefore ran it through PGS - 254 pages was not enough to do it in one document... ----More Stuff Deleted >My turn: >Has anyone had success importing AegisDraw files into PS2.0? If so, how >about AegisDraw files generated by Plplot :^)? I've had no trouble getting AegisDraw files to import into PS1.8 (and 1.6 for that matter), it works great... I've never been able to get a Plplot generated "Pseudo" AegisDraw file to import... Sorry I can't say for 2.0... >Thanks Hope this sheds a little light... Anyone know about the max number of pages statistics??? Virtually, Leon D. Shaner +--------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | LEON D. SHANER <LDSHANER@MTUS5> :BBS: AMIGA BITSWAP CENTRAL DISPATCH: | EE UNDER GRAD. : (906)482-8248 DIALOG PRO! BETA : | MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY : FREE! -24 HOURS -80 MB -2 LINES!: +------------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
stern@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric G. Stern) (10/24/90)
In article <28937@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>, kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes: > In article <13471@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> atai@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (see far ) writes: > >Hello, Can anyone tell me how well does PageStream 2.0 work with a > >1-meg Amiga? How many pages can you have? Is more memory needed in > >order to do anything useful with PageStream? Any info is > >appreciated. > I haven't used PageStream 2.0; I'm still using 1.8. However, I found that with 1 Meg, I had to be very careful. I couldn't print unless I had just rebooted the machine with a special startup-sequence that left a lot of things out. I also couldn't import any pictures. There were other things that I couldn't do. The most common symptom was that PageStream would go off contemplating its navel and wouldn't do anything. > > My turn: > Has anyone had success importing AegisDraw files into PS2.0? If so, how > about AegisDraw files generated by Plplot :^)? > > Thanks > ==================================================================== > Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu > "Well... can't you get a Novell card for your Cray !?" > ==================================================================== I have imported Aegis files into PageStream. The pictures had to have been formatted in 8.5 by 11 units in Draw. I don't know about PlPlot, but when I tried to import Draw files that I made from the Diga! tektronics emulation, I got garbage even though they displayed fine in Draw. I decided that this because the tektronics pictures had dimensions of 4096 by 4096. Eric Stern stern@unix.cis.pitt.edu