Tech Note: -108 Error - Macintosh Offscreen Drawing Buffer
Products:
PrintOMatic Lite Xtra 1.6.5, PrintOMatic Xtra 1.6.5
Platforms:
Mac OS 9
Symptom: When doing a printPreview on Macintosh, the Xtra responds with the error "Internal Error: The Xtra could not create its offscreen drawing buffer."
Soution: This is a low-memory error. The Xtra needs enough extra memory in Director (or your Projector) to create an offscreen drawing buffer for print preview. The larger your screen and the higher the screen bit depth, the larger this buffer needs to be.
There is no definite way to know how much memory is required for this buffer, so you will need to use trial-and-error to debug.
This problem most commonly happens in freshly-minted projectors. Director’s default memory size for projectors is almost always too small. Do a "Get Info" in the Finder, and increase the projector’s default memory size.