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Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!wgilbert
From: wgilbert@watmath.waterloo.edu (William Gilbert)
Subject: Re: printPSCode:
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 90 17:29:56 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.172956.23754@watmath.waterloo.edu>
References: <1990Dec5.121112.5794@canon.co.uk>
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In article <1990Dec5.121112.5794@canon.co.uk> wu@canon.co.uk (Siu-Fan WU) writes
>I have an application which uses printPSCode to print the drawings in
>a View object. The hardcopy obtained from the printer has the same resolution
>as the one on screen. Am I right to expect that the hardcopy should have
>higher resolution if the PS code is regenerated for it? Am I
>missing something?

It depends on whether the image is saved as a bitmap image or not.
You can check which it is by saving to a file from the print panel and
looking at the code with Edit.
For example, the Draw application will save as normal PostScript, but Icon
will save the bitmap image (in PostScript). Therefore printing out an
image from Draw will give you better resolution than the screen, but
printing from Icon will only give the screen resolution.
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Will Gilbert,   Pure Math Dept, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
wgilbert@math.UWaterloo.ca        NeXT mail:wgilbert@fatou.UWaterloo.ca