Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dpaint fonts...
Message-ID: <13442@gryphon.COM>
Date: 18 Mar 89 04:44:10 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Now Ron. Didnt I flame you about this almost 3 years ago ?

First of all, its 75 dpi, not 30.

Second of all, if you make yer picture as big as possible (1K x 1K)
and print it out with iff2ps ane make it, say, half page, which 
isnt bad for an illustration ona page that might have some
text on it, you have a 300 dpi output from dpaint.

To be completely fair, it's not entirely dpaints fault.

Say you make a ice picture with a nice font you picked up 
from somewhere, oh, say you got ``Yagi Link'' (TM Letraset)
and you use it in a picture. 

Now what do you EXEPECT dpaint to do with it when faced with the
challange of outputting it to a device with greater than 75 dpi ?

You have two choices: scale it (which is what it does cirrently)
or use a the font reseident in the printer. Except there are
about 500 amiga screen fonts (would make a great book) and at
best, 50 Postscripot fonts, and thats about it for printer 
resident fonts ?

You think the mac does it any better with a font that aint
in the prnter ? Nope.

In conclusion, if you cant get by with making a BIG picture
and shrinking it down, use Pro-Draw or the like.

(although I suppose the issue of drawig jaggie free lines
is a much simpler one to resolve thatthat of jaggie free fonts)



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