The LaserWriter takes an especially long time to process the following:
1. Bit mapped fonts
2. Many font/size/style changes whether the fonts are LaserWriter
fonts or bit mapped fonts
3. MacDraw with:patterns
4. Landscape orientation with:
a. bit mapped fonts
b. a clipped image that bleeds off the edge of the page
5. Images using smoothing
The LaserWriter takes a long time to process the following:
1. MacDraw with:
a. rotated text
b. clipped or cropped images
2. Landscape orientation
3. Bleeds
4. Any text over 20 points
5. Text with center, justified, or flush right
6. Text in outline or or shadow style
7. Any object scaled very tiny
8. Multiple or dashed-line styles
9. Lots of pattern shades (in PageMaker)
NOTE: PostScript errors will almost always be in this format:
%%[Error:_________; Offending Command:_________]%%
where the two blanks are the important words.
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