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From: leue@galen.crd.ge.com (Bill Leue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Printer gripes
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Date: 17 Apr 91 16:06:02 GMT
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In article <91107.104212CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu> CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) writes:
>Neither the StyleWriter nor the Personal LaserWriter LS seem to support the
>SetLineWidth PicComment.  Personally I find this rather frustrating, since it
>means that even if I, as a programmer, go to the trouble to support high-
>resolution PICT's, only a very few of the available printers will benefit
>from my efforts.
>
>The StyleWriter is Apple's highest resolution printer!  And still, the driver
>doesn't support fine-line drawing.  As I understand it, the LaserWriter SC
>*does* support SetLineWidth; is this correct?  If so, why couldn't the
>relevant code have been incorporated into the new LS and StyleWriter drivers
>also?

I'm not disputing your claim, Chris.  However, just for your info, when
using the StyleWriter with standard Mac applications which DO support fine
lines, such as MacDraw II, you do, in fact, get thin lines.  In fact,
hairlines look much better on the SW than on a Laser Printer, keeping
their width regardless of position, something that the Postscript drivers
don't always do.

I don't know whether MacDraw gets these fine lines using some other
mechanism than SetLineWidth, but anyway, the effect is as if it did.

-Bill Leue
leue@crd.ge.com