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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dpaint fonts...
Summary: Wrong answer, it is possible
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Date: 17 Mar 89 19:51:48 GMT
References: <10596@louie.udel.EDU> <7203@super.ORG>
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In article <10596@louie.udel.EDU> (Bin) wrote:
>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

In article <7203@super.ORG> (Ronald G Minnich) replies:
>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. 

Not true Ron. While it is true that Dpaint is a raster painter (much
like MacPaint in concept) there many simple ways to get acceptable 
output from it. One is to use a larger image. When I am producing 
something for printed output, I usually run DPaint with a 640 X 830
image (for 8 1/2 X 11 printouts) in monochrome or 4 colors. (Since
in 144 dpi mode you can get a nice 2X2 dither for four shades of grey)

Then draw my image and using some of the larger fonts like Helvetica 24
and print it out on my printer. Ever since 1.3 came out the printout is
a) fast, and b) can be forced to "integer" scaling to eliminate those
annoying artifacts. 

Output is now equivalent to a Mac under similar conditions.



--Chuck McManis
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