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From: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Screen Dumping to a LaserWriter
Message-ID: <8099@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 6 Feb 88 16:33:22 GMT
References: <3956@husc6.harvard.edu> <174400099@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: isle@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ken Hancock)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <174400099@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
:
::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.

Let me also remind you that MacPaint is no longer system software.  So,
to do a simple screen dump, you have to go out and buy a graphics program
of some kind.

C'mon Apple -- just give us a screen dump that will work on both
ImageWriters and LaserWriters....

Ken


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