Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!ra!rosenber From: rosenber@ra.abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg INF) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Print Quality Message-ID: Date: 16 Dec 90 20:51:03 GMT References: <47347@apple.Apple.COM> <969@sagpd1.UUCP> <90350.111658JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: rosenber@ra.abo.fi Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland Lines: 38 In-reply-to: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu's message of 16 Dec 90 16:16:58 GMT In article <90350.111658JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes >In article <969@sagpd1.UUCP>, monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) says: >> >> The Amiga does not yet do scalable fonts as the mac so the >> application must still handle the generation of the bit map. >The printouts I get on my LaserJet IIP with ProPage 1.31 and Compu- >graphic fonts dispute your claim that Amiga does not do scalable >fonts. It most certainly does. Yes, the application handles the >scaling itself, but that is because on the Mac, the scalable fonts >you are referring to are Postscript; ATM works by interfacing with >Postscript and downloading the fonts to the printer... The difference is whether the all applications have to do scaling themselves or if the system software does it. ProPage knows how to scale fonts, but it doesn't share this knowledge with other software. So runnimng ProPage doesn't give smooth scalable fonts in other programs than ProPage. >> The drivers (I believe) handle some smoothing functions, etc. >The drivers do not handle the smoothing functions. Those are handled >either by the applications on the computer (such as ATM on the Mac or >ProPage on the Amiga) or the printer itself, if you are using Postscript >and turn the smoothing function on. The printer device *does* handle smoothing for all graphics capable printers. Turn it on in the printer preferences. PostScript doesn't have smoothing built in. The jaggies may be well hidden in an image with low contrast due to the way the halftoning mechanism works. >> Monty Saine >|| Kurt Tappe ---------- Robin Rosenberg