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From: waggoner@omefs3 (Mark Waggoner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Amiga text printing
Keywords: printing epson mac-envy
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Date: 13 Jun 91 19:15:17 GMT
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In article <96@frio.cs.utexas.edu> jonabbey@cs.utexas.edu (Jonathan David Abbey) writes:
>Hello!  I recently had the occassion to do some work with ProWrite, only to
>find that the text printing in graphics on a dot-matrix printer is abysmal.
>
>Now, I know the reason for this;  the Amiga's screen does not have the same
>aspect ratio as the printer, nor does it have a dots-per-inch value which is
>a multiple of that of the printer.  This does not assuage my anguish, however,
>at knowing that the best Amiga word-processing software can't produce results
>comparable to that done on a Macintosh with 6 year old software.

Description of suggested solution deleted...

You can do almost what you want;  If you go in to the page setup requester
(I think) of Prowrite and turn the "Aspect Adjusted" option off, the fonts
will be scaled the same on the X and Y axis, eliminating some of the
poor looking characteristics of the graphical fonts.  It does mean that
margins get adjusted differently for different printers, so don't try to
set up a nice looking document on a dot-matrix printer with, for example,
180x180 resolution and then try to take it to a 300x300 laser printer.
When you change the printer in preferences, the margins will all change
in Prowrite!
  The fonts are still less than ideal, and smoothing only helps a little.
IMHO, Prowrite ought to just DUMP all the graphical support and provide
a little more powerful environment for straight text.  I suppose it
works just fine if you output postscript, but the bitmap font text printing
isn't worth much.

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Mark Waggoner           waggoner@ichips.intel.com         (503) 642-8557
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