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From: amr@dukee.egr.duke.edu (Anthony M. Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are there any decent drawing programs?!?!
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Date: 7 Jun 89 13:48:34 GMT
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From article <18324@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu>, by ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy):
> In article <628@godot.psc.edu> eberger@godot.UUCP (Ed Berger) writes:
>>excellent.  I remember seeing AEGIS Draw would only print a screen-dump, YUCK!
> 
> [The original poster had a DeskJet, but I lost that article...]
> 
> Yes that's true, but the PlotOnJet program recently posted will produce
> *wonderful* printouts of Draw files.  It's a tad slow, but it's worth
> it.  (and it's probably faster than a real plotter, at that.)
> 
> I'll bet PlotOnJet will work on a LaserJet also.  You'd need more than
> 512K to do anything large, though.  Can anyone confirm or deny this?

  The PlotOnJet program should work with a LaserJet except for maybe one
  slight problem.  The program sends a "Set Raster Width" graphics
  command to the DeskJet to increase throughput.  I don't think the
  the LaserJet supports this (it may just ignore it tho).  Anyway, it
  would be a pretty trivial mod to the source to get it to work.  

  And, by the way,  it should be fairly easy to *modify to support any
  raster graphics device* (i.e. almost all dot matrix and laser printers).

  I posted the PlotOnJet program and I'm glad someone else is using it.
  Even I was surprised at how closely PlotOnjet output on the DeskJet
  resembles true plotter output.

> 
> -- 
> Eric Kennedy
> ejkst@cisunx.UUCP

  Tony Richardson
  amr@dukee.egr.duke.edu