Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Dpaint fonts... Message-ID: <13835@gryphon.COM> Date: 27 Mar 89 22:29:08 GMT Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 75 In article <7328@super.ORG> rminnich@super.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) writes: >In article <13442@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >>First of all, its 75 dpi, not 30. >Oh, how exciting. Well, now i am only 115 dpi shy of my Painjet. Well it's a start. >>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 You can tweak the scale with iff2ps to make the aspect ratio anything you want. >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? Beats me. But the issue you brought up was not ``why isnt there a DRAW program'' you said ``DPAINT IS USELESS'' >>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. Faultless logic even if the premises are open to suspicion. >>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. I actually started, but then some bastard turned me onto USENET c'mon little boy, just read one article, one article became 3 3 became 40 more newsgroups, flames, net.parties. My life is a shambles and the program is nowhere nearer to completion than it was 2 years ago. >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. Thats a valid complaint. Saying Dpaint is useless isn't It does what it does very well. Plus you still havnt adressed the question I raised in a previous post on this subject: what do you expect your printer to print when you have a 24 point font in your drawing. Either it has to have a 92 point font available to it to render your picture properly or it has to replicate pixels with all the nasty artifacts that entails. Dpaint is a raster based paint program. Your complaint that it makes a poor object oriented draw program doesnt make much sense. Maybe you should try Pro-Draw ? The text is SLOOOOOOOOW but at least it WILL do what you want it to. Eventually. -- Keep out of the reach of children richard@gryphon.COM decwrl!gryphon!richard gryphon!richard@elroy.jpl.NASA.GOV