Calamus establishes all parameters for the margins, page dimensions, resolution etc. via the printer driver and converts it to its own format. In some circumstances this may be slightly incorrect if the VDI driver does not return exact values.
During printing Calamus now passes the built up pages or tiles as data in the standard VDI format to the printer driver, which itself prepares these for the printer. If necessary VDI will create its own spool files for temporary data storage. As a rule these will be created in the main Calamus directory, but after the printing job is completed they will be deleted again automatically.
Please note:
If you want to print on the Macintosh in the background via the
Quickdraw print manager, then you have to make CPU time available for
the Mac OS. You can do this by activating Cede CPU time for Mac
applications
in the MagicMac setup options. However, background
printing has proved to be not worth recommending, as in most cases the
printing process will be slowed down considerably.
If problems arise, please check first that the configuration of your NVDI or the corresponding VDI printer driver is correct. If necessary, check whether printing from other applications that use VDI/GDOS for output is possible.