u2zj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Stanton Loh) (11/14/90)
A Windows 3.0 programmer friend of mine asked me to post this: On page 12-5 of the Microsoft Windows Guide to Programming, it states under NOTE that text does not start coming out on the printer until an ENDDOC escape is sent. By outputting a message to the screen at the start of each page of a 10 page document, this seems not to be true, it starts printing while I'm generating the 3rd page, and the printing (to a dot-matrix IBM Graphics clone) slows down A LOT. In order to decrease the time required to generate all the pages, I tried decreasing the priority on the spooler, but that had no effect. I had to Pause the Print Spooler until the document was printed, then Resume it. That speeded up the printing, but tended to freeze the machine about 50% of the time, especially if I Paused the spooler while printing was going on. Maybe only while printing, I'm not sure. If so, its probably my fault. Does anyone have any insight into whether the Guide statement is actually true or not, or how I can keep the printing from making page generation so slow? - Doug Stauffer Thanks for any suggestions, ============================================================== |Stanton Loh | u2zj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu | |Baker Lab, Cornell Univ | u2zj@crnlvax5.BITNET | |Ithaca, NY 14853-1301 | stanton@chemres.tn.cornell.edu | ==============================================================