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From: rjung@sal42.usc.edu (Robert  allen Jung)
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Subject: Re: GDOS
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Date: 27 Oct 88 15:05:24 GMT
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In article <10500@cup.portal.com> BobR@cup.portal.com (Bob BobR Retelle) writes:
>pa1132 comments:
> [Lots of stuff about un-scaleability of GDOS fonts deleted]
> 
>If you've been used to, say... the way Publishing Partner handles fonts..
>that is, being able to scale them to *ANY* point size, and load them at
>any time, in any order, it may be quite a shock to go to something like
>TimeWorks Publisher which uses GDOS...

  With all this (psuedo-)GDOS-bashing, I feel compelled to write something
positive:

  The BIG advantage of GDOS's non-scaling fonts feature is that it is FAST.
Comparing 9-pin Epson-compatable printing output speed, GDOS is _faster_ (and
thus, more convient) than Publish Partner and other font-scaling programs.
The reason, of course, is that PP has to calculate how the scaled fonts should
look when you do the printing, whereas GDOS simply looks up a raster map for
its fonts.

  When you get into faster printing devices (laser printer...to dream about),
then the speed _really_ becomes noticeable. Neither approach is "good" or
"bad", just different.

  (I also want to add that I've been using WordUp for most of my GDOS'ing
[When is the next revision coming out?]...My only gripe with GDOS now is
that I don't have enough RAM <grin> to get even MORE wonderful fonts on my
system at once...)

>If you're stuck using GDOS, opt for G+PLUS instead...

  To tell you the darn truth, I don't see much of an improvement in speed
with G+PLUS. Maybe WordUp is using an optimized assembly route for updating
the screen display, but when I used a demo version of G+PLUS with it, I see
no appreciable (to me) speed increase.

  (Now, if CodeHead could have made my printer print faster...)

						--R.J.
						B-)

P.S. Is it just me, or would "HeadCode Software" been a better company name?
B-)

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