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From: scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Appleworks GS question
Message-ID: <7829@claris.com>
Date: 3 Jan 89 20:03:31 GMT
References: <8901031338.AA15074@mitre.arpa>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From article <8901031338.AA15074@mitre.arpa>, by mcgurrin@MITRE.ARPA:
> I had concerns printing (actually I have 2 questions).  First, why does 
> underlined text come out printed twice when printing a spreadsheed in draft
> mode (on the same line).  This appears to be a bug.  Ideally it would be nice
> if underlining was supported, but at least it should just print out as normal
> text.  
I'm not aware of this problem.  I tried creating a spreadsheet, underlining
text, underlining numbers... then printing it in draft mode, and nothing
came out twice.  Is it possible you're using titles?  

> Second, the print dialog box lists 3 options, draft, better color, and 
> better text.  From experience, it seems as though better color is really better
> graphics, since I could not print a page layout application with better text 
> as the selected option, whereas better color worked fine (I did not have the
> color box in the lower left checked, since I was printing in black and white).
> Is my assumption on the print options correct?  
You should have been able to print from PL in better text.  What happened when
you couldn't? (Crash? Nothing? Garbage?)
Your assumptions are basically correct.  Here's what the ImageWriter driver
does: In better text, it generates a double sized pict, then scales it down
when printing.  This forces the use of double-sized fonts for better text
resolution.  However, the colors and graphics also get scaled, so there is a
loss of resolution in the color.  Better graphics sends the bitmap you see on
the screen to the printer.


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