jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway Jr.) (08/05/90)
I recently consolidated all my work onto A/UX having previously been doing part under MacOS. When I opened a 40 page FullWrite document under A/UX I was VERY annoyed to find that the page setup information (at least the margin settings) had been lost. I tried a simple test (make a doc under MacOS with MacOS resident FWP, boot A/UX, move the file, run the A/UX resident copy of FWP and open the unix file) and all was ok. Any idea of what may have happened? And also let me say that while I generally like FWP, large docs seem to be too much for it. I have driven it crazy (uninterruptable loops of manic screen updates culminating in deletion of a chapter) under MacOS, but Under A/UX it bombs doing trivial things on a large complex document (40 pages, 8 chapters, pictures, sidebars, footnotes, contents, etc.). It also seems much slower than under MacOS. While I notice some slowness in most programs under A/UX it isn't enough to be bothersome, but FWP seems 2 or 3 times as slow, at least on large docs. I have had to move my FWP work back to MacOS (what a hassle). I REALLY like A/UX but FWP and A/UX don't seem quite read for each other (and given FWP's troubles even under MacOS, its hard to guess where the problems are). Anyone out there doing large complex document processing under A/UX? If so what are you using? -jrg -- internet jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us John R. Galloway, Jr. applelink d3413 CEO..receptionist 795 Beaver Creek Way human (408) 259-2490 Galloway Research San Jose, CA 95133 -- internet jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us John R. Galloway, Jr. applelink d3413 CEO..receptionist 795 Beaver Creek Way human (408) 259-2490 Galloway Research San Jose, CA 95133
jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway Jr.) (08/05/90)
In article <43660@apple.Apple.COM> jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway Jr.) writes: > > >I recently consolidated all my work onto A/UX having previously been doing >part under MacOS. When I opened a 40 page FullWrite document under A/UX I >was VERY annoyed to find that the page setup information (at least the >margin settings) had been lost.... False alarm (why do I always figure thiese things out AFTER I give up and resort to posting? :-). It was a font mismatch the margins are ok and page layout is fine once the right font was added (where it went i don't know). The problems with FWP's reliability (under MacOS and worse under A/UX) remain. -jrg -- internet jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us John R. Galloway, Jr. applelink d3413 CEO..receptionist 795 Beaver Creek Way human (408) 259-2490 Galloway Research San Jose, CA 95133