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- From: roland.bengtsson@mbox3.swipnet.se (Roland Bengtsson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Fonts...
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 21:48:04 GMT
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- >>I think the printing is one of the downside of AmigaOS compared to Windows!
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- >: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.
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- I know, but I mean text not graphics. If I print some text in Works it's a hell faster
- than any similar Amiga-program. And I think it's because the PC downloads the characters
- first to the printer and not print it like graphic.
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- >>It's not simple to introduce this in AmigaOS. First you must have a descent
-
- >: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.
-
- Yes!
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