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From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George J. Jefferson)
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Subject: Re: Upside down printing on a DeskWriter
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Date: 27 Mar 90 18:22:44 GMT
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In article <1990Mar27.163059.1872@cs.umn.edu> holey@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (J. Andrew Holey) writes:
>Last night, a friend was using my Mac II + Deskwriter to print some
>MSWord files containing Mac Draw graphics.  One particular graphic
>apparently contained some perculiar control sequence, because after
>that graphic was printed, the rest of the file printed upside down.
>In fact, the rest of the page was printed superimposed over the offending
>graphic.

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Neat!  This could be a useful tool if one understood what happened.
I have to suspect Word (4?) as the culprit rather than the Dewskwriter,
however.

I would be very interested to learn about any other 'hidden talents' of 
the DW.  For example has anyone noticed that a '50%' fill pattern from
Superpaint or whatever prints as a very nice 300 dpi grey, but every
other fill (is far as I can tell) prints like a 72 dpi 'screen dump'.
Is there a way to get other high resolution fills (without doing a 25%
reduction of the entire document) form my 'low end' graphics applications?

George Jefferson
jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu