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From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga - only a home computer?
Message-ID: <131511@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 9 Feb 90 01:45:04 GMT
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In article <02206.AA02206@sosaria>, wizard@sosaria.UUCP (Chris Brand) writes:
> 
> Hmmm...do you mean bitmap fonts? Well, it's not possible to print bitmap
> fonts without jaggies. They either have to be converted to a vector format
> (be it Postscript or anything else) or be vector fonts all from the
> beginning. I've just bought Professional Page 1.3, and the output screams.
> A friend (who doesn't understand much of computers :-) said when I showed
> him a example print on my Star LC24-10: "Well all right, but this is done
> by a laser printer." Sums it up.

You still can't get away from the jaggies (unless you've got true vector
output devices).  PostScript or not, the output from a laserprinter still
has jaggies...albeit at 300 dpi.  Even a 2400bpi PostScript laser setter
has jaggies.  You might need a microscope to see them.  But they're still
there.

Implies that at a certain level, the imperfection is good enough.

Trouble comes when you try to set the lower bound of acceptability.  (The
Amiga's best graphics modes haven't reached that lower limit yet, imo.
But the cost of devices that currently do...)

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anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear
and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."   Plato, _Phaedrus_