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From: roddi@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Roddi Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Print Quality
Keywords: Desktop Publishing, Word Processing
Message-ID: <3467@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 15 Dec 90 07:09:09 GMT
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Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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Hello, Net!
	I am looking for a program (or a combination of programs) that will
give me printed text to the maximum resolution of my printer (an Epson
LQ400 - 360x360 dpi, tho' the driver only goes up to 360x180).
	I need to be able to print documents with various font of varying
sizes without the dreaded "jaggies".  To so this, I fooled around with
Excellence! 2.0 - it came with Postscript fonts of various sizes, which
crashed my machine (A500 + 1MB ram) when I attempted to them out in "Graphic"
mode.  When I tried to print them out in "Postscript" mode, my printer just spewed out a document containing the postscript text description of my program.
a document containing them.
	Do I need a program to convert the postscript commands to a bit-
map my printer will understand - if so, any recommendations (preferably PD).
	If there is no hope for me using Excellence!, can anyone recommend 
another program that will give me smooth, large fonts on my printer.
I do not really need DTP facilities such as including diagrams in my
documents - in fact I would like to avoid DTP programs, as they tend to
run nauseatingly slowly on my A500.

Thanks in Advance, 

Roddi Walker

roddi@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au