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- From: wmaddock@icon-stl.net (William F. Maddock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Fonts...
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 14:25:16 GMT
- Organization: iCON, a service of St. Louis Internet Connections
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- On 03-Feb-96 02:50:53 roland.bengtsson@mbox3.swipnet.se Roland Bengtsson
- wrote:
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- >I think the printing is one of the downside of AmigaOS compared to Windows!
- >I belive Windows got the printing speed of downloading the fonts to the
- >printer instead of printing as graphic.
-
- Sorry to burst your bubble, there, but Windows downloads *graphics* just like
- AmigaOS does. It just has the advantage of 2-3x the clock speed to work with.
- Unless you have a printer with either Postscript or PCL built in, you can only
- send graphics or use the built in fonts as downloading good fonts would wipe
- out any memory the printer has. So much for printing anything.
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- >It's not simple to introduce this in AmigaOS. First you must have a descent
- >prefs. Then the program must be written for this new thing and this is the
- >hard part. It's always slow in the start.
-
- >Is this supported in WB4.0? I mean we can't print fonts as graphic forever
- >:-(
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- See above. It can't be done except to get a Postscript or PCL capable printer.
- Other than that you can only download graphics at the printer's best
- resolution.
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