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From: bmp@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Brian Perkin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: HP Paintjet/WFW
Message-ID: <1860003@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 90 00:14:37 GMT
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Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca.
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Here's a couple of ideas. Don't take them as an official HP response...


1. Are you running in real mode? I found that using my PaintJet in real
mode was slower than watching paint dry. It appears that the PaintJet 3.0
driver (written by a third party and supplied through HP to Microsoft)
was written based on some bad assumptions about memory. Moving to 
Standard mode for you may help. I found a big difference when
I moved out of real mode to enhanced on my 386.

2. PaintJets have only about 3 built in fonts, none really compatible
with windows, forcing windows to do the best it can.
PaintJet built-in fonts are fixed pitch only, not exactly the default
for Windows 3.0 apps.
PaintJet XL's are
much more flexible in memory and font's but I don't have the space or
money for one. I use HP PaintJet SoftFonts for Windows and configure them
via the control panel. The PaintJet doesn't really have room for many,
but the quality seems better than what Windows can do by itself.
The softfonts package contains Tms Rmn and Helv, both proportional 
fonts designed to use the 180 dot per inch resolution of the 
PaintJet.


Brian Perkin
From the NewWave division, not the PaintJet division nor the Font division.