Issue With Stickies & LaserWriter Driver Version 8.4 (9/96)


I have seen four different Macintosh computers (two of my own) that appear to cause Stickies to unexpectedly quit when trying to print a note. This started to happen on all of these computers after installing LaserWriter v8.4 printer drivers (desktop printing included). What is wrong?
Workaround
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Apple Engineering is aware of this issue. This is not a printer driver-related issue. This issue is related to Stickies running out of memory.  The easiest way to resolve this issue is to increase the "Minimum" and "Preferred" sizes of Stickies by 20K to 140K. This should resolve the problem. Stickies is normally set to 120K for all three settings: Suggested, Minimum, and Preferred.



Resolution
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Future versions of the Stickies application will have the memory requirements in "Suggested," "Minimum," and "Preferred" sizes set to be 20K greater (at least 140K).


This article was published in the Information Alley on 23 September 1996.
Published Date: Feb 18, 2012