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From: drp@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: w4w ... possible to print a text border?
Message-ID: <377@dosbears>
Date: 3 Jun 91 04:55:42 GMT
References: <1991Jun1.083225.3591@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: drp%dosbears.uucp@ingres.com (David R. Preston)
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In article <1991Jun1.083225.3591@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> gg2@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Guy Gallo) writes:
>On a dot matrix I think (for the time being) you are out of luck if what
>you need is to print text perpendicular to the orientation (unless you
>print in two runs).

This was true until a few weeks ago when Adobe Type Align for Windows
was released.  Using ATA (which requires ATM), you can create an 
arbitrary path for your Type 1 font to follow. You can do some
really weird stuff with skew and curves, and you can print text
perpendicular to the orientation.  I don't think you can put W4W
fields on it, but I haven't tried (I've only had it about a day
and a half).  Various shades of grey can be printed.


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