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From: wizard@sosaria.UUCP (Chris Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Vector & Jaggies
Message-ID: <02254.AA02254@sosaria>
Date: 10 Feb 90 02:42:35 GMT
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In message-ID: <131511@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
writes:

>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.
>

You're right. But even if you have true vector output devices (like a
Montage FR1 slide writer) you are still limited - the best film resolution is
about 3000x3000 points (Kodak Ektachrome). But who cares if you're limited
to THAT resolution? :-)

>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...)

Sure, not everybody can buy a Montage. But in the ms-dos world it's the
same, and yet there are lots of programs who can export vector graphics.
I hope ProDraw 2.0 will be usable....unlike v1.0.

What I'll try is to export a good business chart in The Advantage (as soon
as I get it) in Aegis Draw Plus format, convert it there into HPGL and
either take that into Harvard Graphics as a Lotus 123 graphics import or
send it directly to the slidewriter, who does HPGL files. We'll see if it
works.

>------------
>"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise
>anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear
>and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."   Plato, _Phaedrus_
                                                      ^^^^^
Good philosophical taste!



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