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From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Print Quality
Keywords: Desktop Publishing, Word Processing
Message-ID: <47537@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 90 16:31:27 GMT
References: <49751@cornell.UUCP> <47459@apple.Apple.COM> <50001@cornell.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <50001@cornell.UUCP> johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu (John H. Lee) writes:
>You misunderstood me.  Of course graphics.library supplies drawing
>primitives.  You are asking for an image description model like Postscript.
>The fault is not in the system software because the system software was
>never designed to support such capabilities.  The application has very clear
>idea of what you want (print using a font at a specific point-size) and it
>can print that font at the printer's resolution by using a font with larger
>pixel dimensions, utilizing the system-supplied routines.

Why don't you quit saying that I misunderstood you and quit telling me what
I am asking for.  Of course I know what I am asking for, I don't need you
to repeat it back to me.  The problem *IS* in the system software *BECAUSE*
it *WAS NOT* designed to support such capabilities.  The problem is
being addressed in the >2.0 versions of the system, so Commodore obviously
recognizes it as a problem.

>The printer driver has no concept of a font.

So tell me something I don't know!  The whole problem with the printer
drivers is that they have no concept of anything other than ASCII text
and bitmaps!  In order to get good print quality as a standard for all
applications, the *DRIVER* needs to know about such things.

>Again, you are assuming the printer driver has more capabilities than it
>does.  It does not implement a high-level output model like Postscript, nor
>does it maintain a printer image buffer (too much memory.)  There is no way
>to tell the driver to "print font x at size y at position z" besides the
>limited ANSI character-based printer control.

You shouldn't assume that I am assuming.  I wouldn't have started this
thread if the driver had these capabilities, because the problem would
not exist.

>	John Lee		Internet: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu

Cary

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