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From: tjw9202@ritcv.UUCP (Timothy Wilson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Printing Macpaint paste-ins from Macwrite.
Message-ID: <9362@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 22:11:24 EST
Article-I.D.: ritcv.9362
Posted: Sun Feb 16 22:11:24 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Feb-86 04:33:24 EST
References: <602@aaec.OZ>
Reply-To: tjw9202@ritcv.UUCP (Timothy Wilson)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Lines: 30
Keywords: MacPaint Images, Imagewriter Driver
Summary: I think it's the driver.

In article <602@aaec.OZ> sba@aaec.OZ (Sal Barbagallo) writes:
>
>At present, MacWrite 4.5 does not allow the printing of high quality MacPaint
>pasteins from within a Macwrite document. What happens when 'High Quality' is
>chosen is that Macwrite text is printed by two passes of the imagewrite
>r
>printhead, but MacPaint pasteins only get one pass, why is this? Can the problembe over come by programming the printer. Does anyone know how to fix this
>problem.
>	Perhaps a later version of MacWrite will allow this facility.{.....}


I may be wrong but I think it is a function of the Imagewriter driver that
causes the MacPaint bitmaps to be printed the "standard" way.  MS Word does the
same thing on the Imagewriter.

I think a LaserWriter will do a better job, but using MacDraw for LaserWriter
graphics produces the best results (so I heard, no experience here with a
LaserWriter).  I think this is because MacPaint pics are just bitmaps at the
Mac's screen resolution, while MacDraw PICT docs contain more object
attribute info.

I think that when MacPaint prints on high quality, it uses it's own builtin
driver (I know the old version of MacPaint didn't need the Imagewriter driver
on it's disk, although the new one complains if it's not there).  It used it's
own magic to mimic a higher dot density of the Imagewriter.

Tim

(Now that I wrote this, I'll have to try pasting a MacDraw PICT into
Word and see if it looks better on the ImageWriter. I doubt it...)