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From: joseph@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: wordprocessors on ami (Prowrite)
Message-ID: <22793.2620669b@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 90 16:40:27 GMT
References: <4Apr1990145828134@BLEKUL11.BITNET> <14842@s.ms.uky.edu> <400@icebox.nsc.com>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <400@icebox.nsc.com>, waggoner@dtg.nsc.com (Mark Waggoner) writes:
> In article <14842@s.ms.uky.edu> kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes:
>>In episode <4Apr1990145828134@BLEKUL11.BITNET>, 

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>>It uses the standard abilities of the Amigados printer drivers.  I only
>>have a 9-pin printer myself, but others on the net have said that it does
>>quite well with 24-pin printers and the 1.3 drivers.
> 
> The truthful answer to your question is NO.  You get chunky fonts even
> though you have 180 dpi potential.

But one can make use of the printers built in fonts and get a neat printout.
I use all the different fonts and pitches in my Star XB2410 and the color
printout is great.

> You don't ask, but ProWrite also is lacking multi-column capability.

 The ad for the ProWrite 3.0 claims the mutlti-colum capability and many
 more improvements over the ProWrite 2.5. 


Tomi
joseph@kanvax.bitnet