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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dpaint fonts...
Summary: Dpaint is a toy. All programs that think in 30dpi are toys.
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Date: 16 Mar 89 18:00:35 GMT
References: <10596@louie.udel.EDU>
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In article <10596@louie.udel.EDU> BPJ0%LEHIGH.BITNET@ibm1.cc.lehigh.edu (Bin) writes:
>I was trying to draw circuits on Dpaint and the printout looked real
>shi**y!  The fonts (topaz 8) was too large and jagged.  Is there a way
And it always will. Dpaint thinks that every printer in the universe
has no more resolution than the Amiga CRT. It is a toy. A not very
useful one. 
>was supposed to get rid of jaggies.  But the Dpaint printout (using
>Iff2PS and CLAZ) showed a lot of jaggies-meriting the giggles of I*M
>users....AAaaaaaarrrrrggggggghhhh!)
well, let's see, it was almost three years ago now that people began
to bitch on c.s.a about the crummy printer output, esp. from Dpaint, and
here we are three years letter with the same complaints. Frustrating. 
Dpaint is not something you use to draw things you want to look good. 
Iff2PS and CLAZ can't create information where none exists; by the
time they get to the iff file there just isn't enough information there
to make 300dpi color (or even 180dpi, or 120 ...) look like anything 
but garbage. Drop dpaint. Drop any program that works the way dpaint does.
It looks like Professional Draw is almost the answer, judging by the review
in a recent Amiga Sentry.
   Sorry, Bin, but as long as you use Dpaint you are screwed.
ron