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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Re: Graphics IFF File to Printer (Direct Dump)
Message-ID: <586@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Aug-86 17:06:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  7 17:06:21 1986
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> Actually Dave, most people use the Amiga printer driver to dump the image
> and have very little control of how the printer "renders" it. The
> philosophy being that the person who wrote the printer driver would make
> it produce the best possible rendition and the programmer need not worry
> about that aspect of creating an image. I don't know of an easy (read
> portable) way of going around the driver.
>
> --Chuck

Actually, the print driver (read printer.device) allows a great deal of
flexability in the way it renders things.  The problem is that most of
the paint programs out don't provide a good user interface to this
device, but simply set the device to produce the largest possible print
while maintaining a consistant aspect ratio.  This is very simple to do
with the printer device, but greatly underutilizes its capabilities.

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Dave Haynie    {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh

        "I don't feel safe in this world no more,
         I don't want to die in a nuclear war,
         I want to sail away to a distant shore
         And live like an ape man."
                                -The Kinks

        These opinions are my own, though for a small fee they be yours too.
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