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From: brindley@ECE.ORST.EDU (Mike Brindley)
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Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available?
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Date: 17 Jan 91 22:50:39 GMT
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In article <1991Jan16.022707.8945@cs.umu.se> dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg) writes:
>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... 

To fix this problem, I had to install the PICA/Elite/Condensed/Ultra-
Condensed fonts from the ProWrite disks in my fonts: directory.  Then
you use those fonts whenever you want to use the corresponding
buit-in printer fonts (Pica means 10 char. per inch and Elite means
12 char. per inch).  You must select the 'NLQ' option from the print
window instead of normal or draft.  I believe this is mentioned in
the manual in the appendix about producing high quality text.

I agree that the graphic dump takes too long for any serious work
(papers, reports, books, or anything else which is longer than a
couple of pages).  I have two fast, high-res printers (24-pin NEC
and a HP Deskjet) and for anything I do for school, I MUST use
the printer's built-in fonts.  The graphic dumps look terrible since
the fonts are all bitmapped (lots of jaggies).  As mentioned previously
the graphic dumps also take way too long for me to want to print out
8 or more pages.

--> Mike Brindley
    brindley@ece.orst.edu