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From: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Screen Dumping to a LaserWriter
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Date: 3 Feb 88 17:37:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner    Feb  3 11:37:00 1988


>The recommended way of printing screen dumps is to execute an FKEY #3 
>(which saves the screen to a file) then printing the file like any other
>bitmap file.  This is not only cleaner, its easier and is just as fast as
                                ^^^^^^^      ^^^^^^        ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>the FKEY #4.

Cleaner and easier and just as fast for who?  Apple System Software Progammers.
As for the end user, let's compare the methods:

	FKEY #4				FKEY #3
	-------				-------
	press cmd-shft-4		press cmd-shft-3
	pick up printout		start Paint program
					open screen dump
					choose print
					quit paint program
					throw away screen dump
					pick up printout

I think it is clear which method is cleaner and easier for the user.

While I realize that Mr. Holt is not an official Apple spokesman, I must
say that if Apple's position is the same as his, I am very disappointed.

>
>--Bayles Holt
>holt@apple.UUCP

Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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