Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: printing uniform pixels???
Message-ID: <4591@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 04:47:16 GMT
References: <2752@csli.STANFORD.EDU> <6790003@hpcllld.HP.COM>
Reply-To: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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In article <6790003@hpcllld.HP.COM> hcmutt@hpcllld.HP.COM (Harry Muttart) writes:
>* Anybody can suggest something?
>* 
>* I am aware that this non-uniform printing of pixels are used to make the
>* printed picture have the same proportions, but I am willing to give that
>* up.
>
>There are a couple of approaches to dealing with this in DPII.  One way is 
>to fiddle with settings in the requestor that lets you adjust how much of your
>picture should fill the page that you print to.  When you choose the proper 
>values, you will get one pixel on the screen to on pixed on the printed page.

I got so sick of this I wrote my own single-plane rastport dump and now use
that for printing black/white (usually 640 X 400) images from DPaint. Even
if you stretch the printer.device to its limits by fiddling with the settings
you can't make it double strike (I think this took 3 lines), skip blank
lines (another 3 or 4 lines of code) or set special resolution modes.

To the original author: my e-mail to you bounced, but if you are interested
and have either a Panasonic/close compatible printer, or know anything at
all about C to customize the source, reply to me if you are interested and
I will see if I can send you a copy.

John
(...!utai!garfield!john13)
--
"What do you know... Joe Shlabotnik!"