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Subject: Re: ProWrite -- a review
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>  How does ProWrite interface with non-graphics printers (daisys, etc)?

I don't know.  The manual says, "...ProWrite will support several
different letter quality and dot matrix printers," nothing more
specific.  They don't even state whether ProWrite definitely supports
all the printers in Preferences.  The only thing it says is, "ProWrite
will read your current Amiga Preferences settings for 'Printer Name,'
'Paper Size,' 'Paper Type', and 'Graphic Shading'....If you are using
a non-graphic printer, you should use the Topaz font in the eleven
point size to get properly spaced and aligned text."

> I agree that being able to print amiga fonts is important, but sometimes
> I need letter quality output.  Also, does the manual say anything about
> use of laser printers? (thinking ahead for the future 8-)

No, the ProWrite manual says nothing about laser printers.

By the way, I was reading in Amazing Computing (vol. 2, no. 4) about
the Calligrapher font editor.  This program will enable you to produce
color fonts.

Kailash Ambwani of Gold Disk stated that, with multicolor fonts, you
could then have dithered (anti-aliased?) fonts, eliminating the
"jaggies" in font characters when printed out as bitmaps (i.e. on
dot-matrix printers).  (You can experiment with this effect using
Deluxe Paint II.)

I sure hope that Gold Disk follows thru on that idea.  In fact, if New
Horizons is listening out there, they should consider it too.
ProWrite can already handle multiple colors, so perhaps adding
dithered fonts wouldn't be that hard for them.

Another idea: Now that word processors like ProWrite and VizaWrite
support multifont text, it would sure be nice to be able to
incorporate it, with all its multiple fonts, into desktop publishing
programs like Page Setter.  Anyone know if this is either doable
today, or is planned?

Yet another thought:  Will Word Perfect support multiple fonts?



Steven Litvintchouk
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