SEK@psuvm.psu.edu (Sonja Kueppers) (04/13/90)
Why does MacWrite II have these annoying problems? What are they?
What causes them? Help? I apologize if these have already been
discussed at length, but I don't always have time to read this group
so I may have missed the discussion.
1) The infamous "document will be reflowed" error, appending pages
upon pages to the end of the document. I have one document here
which, after reflowing, crashes when one approaches the end
of the document. The cure was to copy the text into another
file using copy and paste.
2) Imagewriter printing: macwrite II documents occasionally seem to
screw around with the imagewriter, so that in the middle of the
document (I have seen this happen, honest!), the left margin
decides to move over an inch or so. Today I had one document
which was so persistent in doing this that I had to save it as
Word 3 and load it into word in order to print. This was a
three page document that didn't seem to have anything unusual
about it...the only formatting in the whole thing was one
centering command. The only way to fix the printer when this
happens is to switch it off and on.
(we're using the AppleShare print spooler on a network of SE's,
Imagewriters, and Mac II servers. We're running system 6.0.4,
regular finder, no ATM.)
3) Sometimes MacWrite seems to wipe out someone's document altogether.
A number of people here have seen competent users hit save and
suddenly have their entire document erased both from memory
AND FROM DISK!
I can't be imagining things, can I? What's happening?
-Sonja
Oh, interesting tidbit: We discovered yesterday that MacWrite 5 is not
compatible with the Mac Portable and the Mac IIci; when one attempts to
use the spelling checker to check the document, the document is erased.
According to the technical library on AppleLink, this has to do with
an incompatibility with System 6.0.4. It said Claris won't be updating
the software to work on these machines.
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