john13@garfield.UUCP (04/26/87)
[] This afternoon, I posted a ray of hope for people with ProWrite (the stuck-in interlaced version) and 512K. Yes, you can print from it and get good output. Now for the down side. With a 1-meg board on the side, it is *still* possible to run out of chip memory just by doing a sample print of one size of each font, and viewing all of the sample files. One big drawback is that there is no "replace this with a loaded document" - you either open an entirely new window (and gobble up tons of memory) or close the window you are working on (and blind yourself - the patterned background could not have more flicker!!) and open another by loading. I should mention that when you do run out of chip memory, *that's it*. You can't resize or close any windows, and the menus and requesters even stop appearing. Reboot time. Although output seems OK, the number of features is not all that high, and formatting is on a paragraph by paragraph basis, with options for copying formats to different parts of the document. Naturally, it is terribly slow to print, unless you flip the Workbench screen to the front, after which it speeds up greatly. Here's hoping the new version adds a few extra enhancements besides med-res; some form of memory cleanup is essential! John