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From: aoki@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Edwin Aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet or DeskWriter: Advice Requested
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Date: 2 Feb 90 00:52:55 GMT
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Regarding the DeskWriter vs. PostScript output.  (I think with regard
to music programs).  Yes, the PostScript is much better.  BUT, have you
seen the DeskWriter running under Adobe Type Manager?  I don't want to
start an ATM war, but the PS fonts I use with ATM and the DeskWriter
(primarily Symbol and NewCenturySchoolbook) seem to work great.  Now,
if the QD stuff (a la braces and slurs) can't match up, then that's a
problem, but it seems to me that for most applications (esp. since you
mention a PS font or something for $80), the DeskWriter can appropriately
simulate a PS printer.

Then again, I don't own a DeskWriter (though I'm seriously considering it),
so I wouldn't necessarily know.

-Edwin Aoki  (I reviewed ATM for the _Harvard Computer Review_)
(aoki@husc8.harvard.edu/aoki@husc8.bitnet)