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From: dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available?
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.022707.8945@cs.umu.se>
Date: 16 Jan 91 02:27:07 GMT
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In article <1991Jan14.174429.9314@isc.rit.edu> eas3714@isc.rit.edu (E.A. Story ) writes:
>
>Just curious about Prowrite 3.1... DOes it have decent text output on a
>dot matrix printer (9-pin).. I saw it on a friends computer and it
>seemed that it could only get good text output by using the graphics
>output of the printer.. really stupid and unacceptable.. not everyone
>can afford to wait for 20 mins while it prints out a page of text.. and
>its "Draft" mode using the printer's fonts didn't format well at all...
>came out all screwed up... 
>
>I think I'll stick to my myriad PD text editors until SOMETHING with
>decent text output comes along.  There is a REASON printers have a text
>mode... not everyone can afford a postscript or super 24-pin printer.
>
> 				---Ezra
>

I had similar problems when switching between Prowrite (2.04), Word Perfect 4.x
and CED about a year ago. I don't remember quite how I got it to work but your
friend should be able to fix it by playing with the settings. I remember that
it was trivial once I found it :-)

/Jorgen
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