Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com (03/04/90)
> I have what I believe to be the latest version of PPage, but someone told > me that you should be able to save the preferences of the program in a file. > I want to be able to do this because I am having EXTREME difficulty making > the Compugraphic characters display on the screen. I always get the > requester that says, "Not enough memory to start Compugraphic > Task--Characters not already in cache will not be displayed." And because > there aren't any characters in the cache (to my belief) I cannot see > anything I type. > I know I have more than enough memory for everything to be put in RAM at > once and still do other things with my Amiga at the same time. 9MB should > be good enough for this program to run, process everything and still have > tons of space to hold Compugraphic fonts. What gives? The manual I have > doesn't even start to mention ANYTHING about this. I have PPage 1.3 and I was having problems too. Make sure you work off of working diskettes, not your masters, because it appears that PPage has to write some temp files. I assume this may be 'disk caching' related to the memory- hungry outline fonts. I hope you know some CLI. What I tried to do when I got a requester for a nonexistent device (I think it was PPCache: or something like that, when it boots up) was to pull down the screen, reASSIGN the diskette I was using as the device name (this is ugly, but nothing else got me past square zero, including trying to read the manual), then, after the requester was satisfied (CANCELing it resulted in the problem you described), I reASSIGNed it back. It worked. I haven't played with it enough yet to find a better solution. I suggest a letter to Gold Disk. As much as I love Ami and appreciate the difficulty of writing a dynamite desktop publishing program, I still find, after lots of money spent and numerous upgrades, that I'm still kind of disappointed. Oh, one last word. If you run off your own Workbench rather than off the PPage diskette, you'll get fonts that are too wide for the requesters. Either boot off PPage and set the Preferences to your liking or reASSIGN the font directory to the PPage diskette, preferably before running PPage. Hope this helps. \_ Julie Petersen (LadyHawke@cup.portal.com) )\_ _/ portal!cup.portal.com!LadyHawke `/)\_ __ // __ _____________________________________________ `\\)\_ / '~// /// `\\//\\/|'//' /// "TimeLords aren't supposed to interfere." (\/Yyyy/' __ /// "This one calls himself 'Doctor' and interferes /Yyyy/' \\\ /// all the time." Dr. Who //\\ LadyHawke \\/// _______________________________________________ ///\\\