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From: stern@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric G. Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Junk=Amiga Wordprocessors & Amiga PrinterDrivers
Message-ID: <21292@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 24 Dec 89 01:37:35 GMT
References: <19466@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Physics, University of Pittsburgh
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In article <19466@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, rsingh1@dahlia.waterloo.edu writes:
> Amiga word processors suck.

> That's the conclusion I just came to.  I am an owner of Prowrite, some
> recent version, and just typed in a short 20ish page document.

> All I wanted to do was to print it out text style.  Fancy?  I thought not.

> A few lines were centred, a few were underlined, and a few were
> 'carefully 'structured''

> I typed it all in just fine.  I spell-checked it (Slow), but when I went to
> print it (Star NX1000), double space style, some lines were 'tripple spaced',
> and some were just plain messed up.  As well, the program did not understand
> page-breaks worth beans.  Often, I would find 1 or two lines flowing over
> on to the next page.  The entire thing supposedly was Wysiwyg on my screen,
> and what printed was close, but not like what was on screen.
>                /Paul Anton Sop (Esquire?).  rsingh1@dahila.waterloo.edu/


Of course you had problems.  You were trying to do something the
hardware was incapable of, not the software or the printer drivers.
It says right in the manual that for ASCII printing (draft mode) you
are restricted to the topaz-11 font and single space and a few other
parameters that I don't remember right now.  That is because that is
what printers do when asked to do ASCII printing, not because of some
capricious decision by the Prowrite authors or your device driver writer.
By the way, if you had printed it out in standard (graphics) mode, it
would have come out fine.  I have the Star-NX1000 printer and with the
new printer driver I have no complaints with my Prowrite output.

				Eric Stern
				stern@unix.cis.pitt.edu