Path: utzoo!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!rg20+ From: rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Word Processors (PenPal) Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 89 23:34:05 GMT References: <13358@louie.udel.EDU> Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: <13358@louie.udel.EDU> STU00@vx.acss.umn.edu (Stuart Stanley) writes: > First, excellence does support PS, but >the quality of it is HORIBLE! At least it is when you write the PS to >a file. (I have never tried going right to a printer) Excellence writes >out the entire file as a bitmap! The result is jaggies everywhere. Also, >the files are huge. One page = 170,000bytes of disk space. YUCK!First of all the quality of it is not Horrible, it is exactly the resolution available WITH the FONTS or graphics you used. I have excellence, and have been using it to do Lab reports by postscript printing them to a file then uploading and printing from andrew. To get laser quality output you have to use LASER fonts! This is the same as with the mac (not that in some mac programs there are fonts names that a filled in and others that are outlined? try printing one of the really BIG solid fonts, I'll bet you see a really jagged font from a laser printer. The deal is that if you use a laser font (ie phelvetica,ptimes,psymbol) then you will get laser quality output, however if you don't then it HAS to print it bitmapped, (unless you can magically produce all the information to get a laser quality font). The same goes for graphics, you give it a bitmapped picture, don't expect it to be able to get mor information to make it look nice when printed. BTW using actual ps fonts will make the files a lot smaller, not to mention that they look nicer too... Rick Golembiewski rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu