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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dpaint fonts...
Message-ID: <16871@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 89 19:24:47 GMT
References: <10596@louie.udel.EDU> <7203@super.ORG>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <7203@super.ORG> rminnich@brainiac.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
>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. 

>   Sorry, Bin, but as long as you use Dpaint you are screwed.

Well, yes and no.  What you say is true for the most part, but if all
you have is dpaint, you're not *totally* handcuffed.  What I've been
doing is to create one bitplane 900x900 diagrams in dpaint II, and
setting the new preferences options in 1.3 such that it the picture gets
printed so that there is a one-to-one correspondence between screen
pixels and printer pixels.  This works reasonably well on a laser
printer.  There are lots of objections to this, yes, such as the picture
will only be 3" by 3", you have to scroll around the picture as you're
drawing it, and dpaint doesn't provide the convenient structured drawing
tools available in something like Professional Draw.  But for reasonably
simple diagrams, it can be done, and the results aren't bad.


-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP