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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet and AmigaTeX
Message-ID: <6401@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 27 Jan 89 10:31:15 GMT
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Reply-To: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
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> > 1) How does AmigaTex handle fonts?  Should I buy a font cartridge or 
> > the RAM expansion, or can I get by without either one?

The font cartridge has no effect; it is totally ignored, as is the RAM
cartridge.  DeskJet limitations preclude the use of the RAM cartridge.

> So you'll need enough ram to hold a full page of graphics, I suspect.

This is the neat part; you don't.  You can generate DeskJet output with
perhaps only 150K to 200K of memory free in the system.  So you 512K
people out there needn't worry.

> > 2) What are the limitations of this combination?

No limitations on number of fonts, size of fonts, or selection of fonts.
(Oh, perhaps you can't have more than 128 fonts or something on a page,
but I've never run into a limit.)  Of course, it will take 2-6 minutes
to generate a page.

I'd be happy to send anyone a disk with sample output from the driver so
you can see how fast it runs on your printer and judge the quality of
the output yourself.  Tomas Rokicki, Box 2081, Stanford, CA  94309.