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From: robertt@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Bob Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Upside down printing on a DeskWriter
Message-ID: <780119@hpvcfs1.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 90 15:45:05 GMT
References: <1990Mar27.163059.1872@cs.umn.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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My best guess on problem one:  It sounds like the offending graphic
set text rotation to flip (or rotate 180 degrees) and never bothered to turn
it off.  Just a guess, but that could be why MacDraw II wouldn't open it also.

As far as pattern fills go, the DeskWriter does patterns just like the
LaserWriter IIsc.  For most patterns, it scales them to 300DPI (this way,
bricks look like bricks, etc.  This actually took a lot of effort since
Quickdraw only scales patterns by 2 (for the IW).  Most of the 3rd party
DJ drivers and most other Quickdraw printers just scale by 2).  A few patterns,
however, (once again, the same ones as the LaserWriter IIsc) are "standard"
gray scale patterns and are mapped to 300DPI gray scale patterns on the DeskWriter.  I can't speak for Superpaint (since some apps. choose to use their own
gray scale patterns rather than the standards), but all of the standard gray
scales patterns in MacDraw II do map to DW 300DPI grays.

Bob Taylor
HP Vancouver - Home of the DeskWriter

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