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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dpaint fonts...
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Date: 28 Mar 89 21:00:25 GMT
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In article <13835@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>You can tweak the scale with iff2ps to make the aspect ratio anything
>you want.
IFF2PS can't drive a paintjet. iff2ps doesn't come with Deluxe Paint. 
It seems that every solution I have seen to using deluxe paint involves
hunting around for some public domain goodie and and hoping that 
somehow you can get printed output that looks like something. 
Tell me what you will, but MacPaint output to an Imagewriter looks
better than DeluxePaint to almost anything- unless you are willing
to do a *lot* of screwing around. Why is this? I dunno. Why is this
after *3 years*? I dunno. I think it is your fault. :-)
>Thats a valid complaint. Saying Dpaint is useless isn't It does what
>it does very well.
Well, I guess you are right, it does what it does  ... well, ok maybe.
Fact is that Amiga people always end up stacking dpaint up against
the competition. That's not fair, i know, but that is what happens.
And we always seem to lose.
>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.
Yeah, but Richard, I don't even want that much. Neither did the
original poster. He probably drew, maybe, a box or a triangle, 
and noticed that when he printed the triangle it looked like sh*t. 
As did lots of people three years ago. For drawing and printing 
the most basic pictures dpaint fails. 
ron