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From: bliv@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Jim "Bliv" Haleblian)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Aegis Draw?
Message-ID: <3439@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 00:33:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 13 00:33:40 1986
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Summary: More on Aegis and printer drivers...

--- Take that, Line Eater!  AAaaaarrg (munch)

	Having used Aegis Draw for a couple of small projects, I've
noticed that it leaves much to be desired in the printer support category.
My first complaint is that it prints the entire window of the plot.  My second
complaint is that, well, it doesn't *exactly* print the window either.  It
turns out that if I move the window up so that the window's title bar overlaps
the screen's menu/title bar, Aegis won't print it any more.  It also (thank the
lord) won't print the borders on the sides (but it will print the bottom,
sometimes, if you don't change the print parameters properly).  In fact, if you
don't change the parameters properly, sometimes your printout is missing
several lines from the bottom of the drawing.

	This is a paragon of consistency.

	It's real easy to use (at least to somebody who hasn't used any CAD
before), but I still wish it could switch into interlace mode (Dynamic CAD
uses interlace, but the beta copy I saw couldn't go into 320x200 mode[!]).

	Supposedly, Aegis is coming out with an update soon, but the update
apparently won't be taking care of the printer problems...I should probably
mention, too, that you can't adjust the size of the output or the resolution
of the printing, all you can adjust is the last pixel on the right and the
bottom that the printer will print.

	AEGIS, can we please have a decent print drawing function?

					Jim Haleblian
					mit-eddie!bliv

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