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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Operation Silk Purse (or, dvi -> iff)
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Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 20:29:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 25 20:29:22 1987
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In article <453@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
|    Has anybody noticed that iff files from DPaint still look lousy 
| on the LaserWriter? Anybody out there have any solutions? 

Yes, and no. If you dump a 320 X 200 image to the LaserWriter and blow it
up to 7.5 X 10 inches it looks really blocky. If you dump a 1000 X 750
image to a LaserWriter as a 7.5 X 5.5 inch bitmap it looks ok. Better
still is to dump an Aegis Draw+ drawing to the LaserWriter at the LaserWriters
resolution (no scaling per se) and that looks as good as you could hope to 
find on LaserWriter.

| There is an MCad program on the Fred Fish disks; does this 
| program save things as objects or IFF? Anybody out there 
| tried low-pass filtering it? (I know, i'm reaching).
|    Gosh this stuff can get depressing. It would be nice to 
| 1) be able to edit figures on the Amiga for inclusion in articles-
|    still cannot; Deluxe Paint figures included in one article
|    elicited nasty comments from reviewers.
| 2) Be able to view graphics stuff before dumping to 
|    QMS or Laserwriter without plunking down another $700 for 
|    software and hardware. 

I would suggest the Aegis draw combination. Anthony Studios in San Francisco
has a Draw <-> PostScript converter (as well as a page composer sort of thing)
That will probably do what you need. TeX of course generates the best text
output I have ever seen. 

--Chuck McManis
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