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From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney)
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Subject: Re: DESKJET printer drivers
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Date: 29 Apr 91 18:04:27 GMT
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In article <41919@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> kawakami@locusts.Berkeley.EDU (John Kawakami) writes:
`Last I heard, there are not any Atari programs which would benefit from
`font cartridges for the DJ.  Though I'm no atari guru, I cannot recall of
`any atari word processor which deals with printer based fonts with any
`grace.  Right now, I am using WordPerfect to try and exploit the DJ's features,
`but WP is just not cut out for the task.  The Atari WP is meant for older
`dot matrix printers.  I can say one thing for sure: WP will not switch
`fonts well.
`
`One way to get around this problem is to use GDOS (or any other system that
`bypasses the fonts in the DJ) to dump the text to the printer in graphical
`form.  A word processor like Wordflair or WordUp will do this.  TeX will
`also do this (and there is a DJ driver for TeX too.)

My G-Print application will also do this.  The current version cannot read
Word Perfect files, but the next one will.  Right now, it supports 1st Word,
Word Writer ST, 1st Word Plus, and ST Writer (as well as ASCII).  Please 
contact me if you have any questions.

	--Steve

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