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Path: suod.cs.colorado.edu!dowdy
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Dowdy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Soft-Logik: PageStream 3.0i Info please..?!
Date: 6 Mar 1996 06:55:06 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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In article <4hj7je$[e-mail]>,
Jason Peacock <[e-mail]> wrote:
)Kevin W Davidson ([e-mail]) wrote:
): The old PageStream 2.2 did not allow direct control of Landscape vs
): Portrait (the program selected automatically).
)
)  PGS 2.2 would know automatically which way to print the document
)  based on the orientation it was given for the document.  One of
)  things I liked about this automation was that it seemed to try to
)  get a "best-fit" orientation for the document.

Unless i'm mistaken, PGS2.2 didn't print based upon the orienation it was
given.  It had some algorithm, which always made printing Envelopes to my
LJ IIP a pain in the butt. sometimes it'd print 'em one way, if i sized a
business env, the other if i did personal size -- i always needed to print
a test output to make sure it wasn't going to do a "best-fit" that wasn't.
So, usually, if i wanted a personal size envelope, i'd have to say it was
something like 4"high by 10" long to force the orientation, even though i
should have been able to say it was 4" high by 6" wide (it'd take the 6"
and say "ooh, i can make that fit across 8.5" so i won't rotate)

I'm glad PGS3 has a print orientation selector, but yes, it would be nice if
the original document "orientation" would be included in the document and
*used* by the print requester (i am pretty sure that's a thing on the
"todo list" and will be fixed soon).

As far as printing goes, too... the docs keep saying that PGS3's non-PS
rasterizer is much better than 2.2, but other than the FS-dithering (which
is great except no Gamma Correction), the PCL output to my IIP is
*much* worse than using a Pacific Data PS cartridge in PS mode (i mean
*MUCH* worse it's quite noticable), and certainly no better than 2.2.
I'm not sure if the PostScript imaging model has some inherent inability
to do FS dithering, or it's just not implemented, but i'd love to have
the FS dither option under PostScript print mode (i don't see any reason
the FS dithering can't be done prior to generating the PS bitmap data,
but i could be overlooking something here).

--stephen
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