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From: chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Christian Ludwig - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Amiga text printing
Keywords: printing epson mac-envy
Message-ID: <22449@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 14:29:21 GMT
References: <96@frio.cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: chrisl@cbmvax.commodore.com (Christian Ludwig - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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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.
>

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>spacing to take care of the critical page width problem.  Having non-integer
>scaling is just too horrendous for words.. a given character may look different
>depending on where it is on the page, and the thickness of the strokes varies
>across the character..
>
><whimper>
>

IF you're using the latest version of ProW*ite, the Preferences "Scaling-
Integer vs. Fractional" doesn't affect output.  The software seems to
override this setting.  HOWEVER - You can get quite good output by
turning off the Aspect Adjusted feature (in Project->Page Setup...)

While this is definitely NOT an ideal solution (characters aspect will
be all wrong if your printer's dpi isn't "right") it does dramatically
improve the overall quality of the output on dot matrix printers from
ProW*ite.

Hope this proves at least marginally useful.
 
>
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>Jonathan David Abbey              \ "Dudez! Gimme a quarter!" - Aldo Cella
>the university of texas at austin  \  - Dedicated to the Cygnian in all of us. 
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