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From: jack@Taffy.rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Freedom of Press Light and the DeskWriter
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Date: 14 Nov 90 06:42:40 GMT
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Bob,
   I tried FOPL on my SE/30 and non-AppleTalk Deskwriter and my reaction is
much the same as the old Saturday Night Live dinner theater skits when Dan
would turn to the audience and say "Now that wasn't very good at all was it...".
The main problem I have with it is speed. The ATM 2.0 runs rings around it.
I can get almost 2 ppm out of my DW with ATM 2.0. FOPL makes that 0.2 ppm.
Effort and money would be better spent upgrading software to do rotated text
right. Igor and MacDraw II both print rotated text fine. I hear that the next
version of SuperPaint will also. Give us rotated QuickDraw text and who really
needs PostScript. In my view any draw program that doesn't do Beziers nicely
in QD is only doing so because they are lazy, not because it can't be done.
Apple should stop worrying about replacing Type 1 with TrueType and put some
serious effort into upgrading the QuickDraw graphics environment and soon...
                                Jack