Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!crosfield!jc From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: Questions about DTP printing and refresh speed Message-ID: <10211@suns7.crosfield.co.uk> Date: 7 Jun 91 08:52:33 GMT References: <1991Jun2.013507.26940@ichips.intel.com> Reply-To: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford) Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.applications Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom. Lines: 41 In article undrground!ryan@amix.commodore.com (Ryan Sheftel) writes: > >Well, I am using ProPage 2.0 on an Amiga 2000 with 68010. As for the >screen updates, it is fairly fast expect for the fonts for some reason. I >think it is becuase I do not have a big enough font buffer. As for output >it is great! It uses CompuGraphic fonts which will output at the highest >resolution of the printer. The output is very fast. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What?!! Are we talking about the same program here? PPage 2.0 on my 68000 A2000 and an HP deskjet+ takes about 30 mins to print the two page newsletter at 300dpi with the 1.3 deskjet driver, and about 20 minutes with the SG_deskjet one. Compare that with the output from AmigaTeX, also at 300dpi, also with graphics, which comes in somewhere in the 30 SECONDS - 1.5 minutes range. It's actually faster to save postscript output from PPage to a file, then stick that through the postscript interpreter ("Post" and "Postlj", PD I think) that came with my latest AmigaTeX upgrade, than to go straight from PPage to the printer. AmigaTeX blows PPage away for speed - I'd happily print several copies of a TeX document, but for PPage I'd have to use CMD to stash the raw printer stuff in a file. OTOH, PPage is better at newspaper/magazine style messy layouts - Horses for courses, really - but the output is sooooo slooooow. (And I'm not impressed with gold disks overseas support, either - remember the free 1.3 -> 2.0 upgrade? Not if you're outside the states it wasn't.. No "cost of postage" either, which would have been understandable.. more like 'we couldn't care less'. Given that attitude (having phoned the states to check) we decided that mailing in our registration cards would be a waste of time.) Oh, BTW - PPage won't do colour seps except to a postscript printer. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | Jerry Cullingford #include +44 442 230000 | ,-|-- | jc@crosfield.co.uk (was jc@cel.co.uk) or jc@cel.uucp x3203 | \_|__ +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ \___/