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From: ianking@tcom.stc.co.uk (Ian King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: GEM Artline problems?
Keywords: DR GEM etc
Message-ID: <1878@bute.tcom.stc.co.uk>
Date: 27 Oct 89 13:14:10 GMT
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Has anybody used Digital Research's GEM Artline in anger?. I've got a
problem with it. If I do a drawing in GEM Draw & print said file out
on my HP LaserJet II I get a perfect printout. Now I now run
Artline & read the same file (which now makes it un-readable by GEM Draw
because of the changes made to the .GEM format to support bezier(?) curves).

I now print the same file out on the LaserJet.

If you compare the two print-outs, the text on the Artline one has got 
sort of ragged edges ie the curves to the text chars are not smooth. The
GEM Draw one is perfect.

I know that Artline uses .AFF (a postscript subset?) files for its FONTS
whereas GEM Draw used .B30 files. I would have thought that the 
quality should be the same?

Has anybody else had this experience?

Oh I installed both packages as per the Manual. Its annoying because
Artline can do all sorts of things with Text chars but the printout
is lousy.

Thanks in ADVANCE.....

....................Ian King



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