Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!claris!scott
From: scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Appleworks GS Questions
Message-ID: <7809@claris.com>
Date: 2 Jan 89 19:30:15 GMT
References: <6230025@hpindda.HP.COM>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From article <6230025@hpindda.HP.COM>, by tribby@hpindda.HP.COM (David Tribby):
>    1. Is there any way to use my old Okidata to print spreadsheets or
>       word processing documents that contain only ASCII text? Basically,
>       all I want to do is dump ASCII to the printer serial port.
>
No _clean_ way.  You can try sending ascii text files to the serial port from
the communications module in direct connect mode.  I haven't actually ever
done this.
 
>    2. When I use the paint program, is there anyway to control the
>       total size of the picture? Sometimes I can move the horizontal
>       or vertical slide bar for several screens worth of area; other
>       times it seems that one screen pretty much fills up the area. 
> 
The size of the page within the window is equivalent to what can/will be
printed.  That size is controlled by the choice of printers & the various
options (condensed, landscape, etc) chosen.

>    3. Are the formats of picture files documented? I would like to write
>       a Pascal program that displays pictures from the paint program.
The AWGS graphics file format is not currently documented, but APF is, in
Tech Note #27.

Well, those are my opinions as one of the authors... if you want the official
company answers,

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