Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!rminnich
From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dpaint fonts...
Message-ID: <7327@super.ORG>
Date: 20 Mar 89 20:28:51 GMT
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In article <94598@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <7203@super.ORG> (Ronald G Minnich) replies:
>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)
But but but ... the amiga is a color machine. So, i have this nice
color machine, i drop the money on my nice hp paintjet, and ...
you tell me that i can get output if i use 4 colors or monochrome?
On my eight-color-at-180dpi paintjet? Toss away half my colors?
Why did i buy the amiga, then? It is frustrating that after
three years now there is still no apparent way to get decent,
non-jaggie color output. I have done a fair amount of fooling around
with Dpaint I/II and even have done what you say, Chuck, and i still
find the output atrocious. 
   All I really would like is color output as clean as AmigaTeX's 
monochrome output. Yeah, i know, these things are hard to write. 
But three years later we only have one candidate? ack. 
No wonder nobody takes us seriously. 
   I wish I had bought something other than a paintjet ... I 
really can't use it, since no Amiga programs can.
Maybe i should buy a pc and get one of their draw programs?
   ron
P.S. Oh, BTW, don't believe Aegis's claims about supporting color printers.
     (in Draw 2000). They lie.