Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!umd5!mimsy!oddjob!hao!noao!mcdsun!sunburn!gtx!al From: al@gtx.com (0732) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: PaintPower (was PaintPower Printing) Message-ID: <513@gtx.com> Date: 7 Jan 88 14:42:35 GMT References: <3186@ihlpf.ATT.COM> <3718@islenet.UUCP> <1221@electron.UUCP> <160@heurikon.UUCP> Reply-To: al@gtx.UUCP (Al Filipski) Distribution: na Organization: GTX Corporation, Phoenix Lines: 30 In article <160@heurikon.UUCP> davek@heurikon.UUCP (David Klann) writes: > >Printing with Paint Power is straight forward. Simply press the > key on the UNIXpc keyboard. Paint Power comes with its own >(limited number of) printer drivers. The picture file format is not >documented, nor is the printer driver, so creating a new driver might >not be too easy. The print quality is at least as good as MacPaint, >and better than many PC drawing programs I've seen. > I kludged a setup to work after a fashion with a non-standard printer Y by telling PP that I had a supported printer X and then sending the output through a "Printer-X-to-printer-Y" filter before printing. The difficulty in writing the conversion filter depends on how similar the printers are. In my case, the result had an incorrect aspect ratio, but it was good enough until my laser printer arrived. The thing that bugs me most about PP is the fact that there is no easy way to type a continuous line of text wider than one window (quite a small area when a 300 dpi device is used). As soon as you move the window, it automatically takes you out of text mode, so you have to enter text mode again, and try to line up the new text with the old. This is really aggravating. I bought mine from Amperfax (about $170). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Alan Filipski, GTX Corp, 2501 W. Dunlap, Phoenix, Arizona 85021, USA | | {ihnp4,cbosgd,decvax,hplabs,seismo}!sun!sunburn!gtx!al (602)870-1696 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------