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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dpaint fonts...
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Date: 20 Mar 89 20:45:10 GMT
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In article <13442@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>Now Ron. Didnt I flame you about this almost 3 years ago ?
Yes, you did. 
>First of all, its 75 dpi, not 30.
Oh, how exciting. Well, now i am only 115 dpi shy of my Painjet. 
>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.
Wow, that was easy. I stood on my head and put the picture on the 
driveway and it looked great. 
Now if i could only get everyone else to look at it that way.
   You forgot the aspect ratio compensation, right? Or do 
circles finally look like circles? Should Joe Average User have
to go through this sort of thing? Why can't Joe Average User
buy a decent draw program yet?
>To be completely fair, it's not entirely dpaints fault.
No, it isn't. I just hate Dpaint. I hate electronic arts. So 
I flamed them first. 
>In conclusion, if you cant get by with making a BIG picture
>and shrinking it down, use Pro-Draw or the like.
My main real complaint is that after you flamed me three years ago
you didn't go out and write a decent draw program. You wrote postscript,
after all, and you own 400,000 shares of Adobe stock. Therefore, you
should have fixed us all up with a draw program worth something. 
>(although I suppose the issue of drawig jaggie free lines
>is a much simpler one to resolve thatthat of jaggie free fonts)
Somewhat. 
Ah, well, maybe by the time 1990 rolls around we will finally 
have a decent draw program. Meantime, i have color macdraw 
or fig or ... any one of a number of programs, none of which
run on the Amiga ... sigh.
ron