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From: gurgle@well.sf.ca.us (Pete Gontier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Printer gripes
Message-ID: <24333@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 20 Apr 91 21:09:01 GMT
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In article <91107.190347CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu> CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) writes:
>However, let me clarify:  the practical upshot of the StyleWriter and
>the PLW LS drivers not supporting the "SetLineWidth" PicComment is that
>when printing a PICT which contains embedded line width information via
>the SetLineWidth mechanism, that information will be ignored.

I complained to DTS about this when the printers were in beta. Unfortunately,
our seed was too late for the print shop to do anything about it. At this
point, the feature can't even be added, because the powers that be are
concerned that developers will start using special case code to determine
whether they have a late enough version of the driver to use SetLineWidth.
(If the version is too early, the theory goes, developers might want to
dot the line instead of making it thin.) Such version-checking, of course,
would be done differently by every developer, because there is no standard
facility for getting the version of a printer driver. (This is probably a
bad idea anyway; getting version info means you know what printer and
driver you're printing to, which is another black art in the first place.)
-- 
 Pete Gontier, gurgle@well.sf.ca.us
 Software Imagineer, Kiwi Software, Inc.