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From: geller@eli.UUCP (David Geller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MicroSoft Windows
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Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 16:39:34 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 16:39:34 1987
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Organization: Electric Logic, Inc., Washington, D.C.
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Summary: YES - VENTURA WORKS WITH LJ+

> Now the real question.  Does Ventura Publisher work with LASERJET + ?

Yes - in fact, it works exceedingly well - that is if you don't
care about data throughput...

(1) the quality, based upon the inherenet limitations of the 1st
series of Laserjets (yes, series two machines are now available and
the laserjets that we all know and love will be phased out within
6 months - not support mind you, just as product offerings) is very
good. Point sizes up to 24 points.

(2) There is a problem, though. Ventura doesn't retain (in Ver 1.0)
and information about the font data that it used between pages.
That means that you might be sending >300K for some pages (each
page). Yes - this is definitely weird. I finally decided to keep
my laserjet+ working just on the UNIX box with troff and get a 
postscript device for the PC.

(3) Downloaded fonts (those made by BitStream and distributed by HP)
look VERY VERY good - far better, I think, than scaled postscript
fonts of the same type and size!

David Geller
Electric Logic, Inc.
Washington, D.C. 
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