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From: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Publishing Partner Professional/ Professional Page
Keywords: Release date set
Message-ID: <4886@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 03:51:38 GMT
References: <1926@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU>
Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 33

In article <1926@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU> cheung@vu-vlsi.Villanova.EDU (Wilson Cheung) writes:
>
>pressure from the Atari community.  Therefore, I have decided to snatch up
>Gold Disks offer.  So for $150 total I have a proven and tested, top of
>the line desk top publisher that'll hog up my 2.5 Meg Amiga with ease
>but give me all the features I may ever need and a potentially equally
>competent package that will work with 512K, and will offer superior dot
>matrix output.
>
	While I think that Gold Disk's Professional Page V1.1 is an
excellant produce I must point out one inaccuracy in your above statement.
The current dot matrix output from PP V1.1 does not match the PROPOSED
(important word here) output from Publising Partner due to the different
ways both programs get their data to the printer.

	Professional Page V1.1 works in an internal resolution of 120x72
dpi.  When it outputs a page to a non PostScript printer it creates a
rastport which is approx. 960 x 720 dots (120 dpi x 8 inches and 
72 dpi x 10 inches).  If your printer's resolution is greater than this
then you will experience some chunkiness in the output.  Of couse if
you output to a PostScript printer then you'll catch beautiful output
at the resolution of the printer (usually 300 dpi).

	Publishing Partner Plus chose a different approach.  They plan
to look at the resolution of the printer and create a rastport at the
resolution of the printer.  They then plan to render into this rastport
and then dump it.  This should give PostScript like output on any
non PostScript printer.

	Some things to keep in mind:

	- you can go and buy Professional Page V1.1 right now
	- Publising Partner Plus isn't out yet