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- Subject: Re: Re: What W Processor will save a file to Postscript
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.110633.2696@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 11:06:33 +1000
- References: <1992Jul17.193802.12164@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <45325@shamash.cdc.com> <62489@cup.portal.com> <Brq4Gr.Hu0@DMI.USherb.CA>
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- In article <Brq4Gr.Hu0@DMI.USherb.CA>, vailm00@DMI.USherb.CA (MARC VAILLANCOURT) writes:
- > -> Excellence can only produce acceptible output using a printer's
- > -> internal fonts or to postscript. All other options are awful.
- > -> CompuGraphic fonts for excellence! simply means Amiga bitmaps at
- > -> any desired size.
- >
- > Kevin, any idea why developpers of Excellence! and ProWrite haven't managed
- > yet to get nice output when using Compugraphics fonts? I mean, how hard is it
- > to check the resolution of the printer you selected, and scale the fonts
- > properly to match that resolution, and dump the resulting hi-res bitmap
- > to the printer? This would give output as nice as with PageStream or PPage.
- >
- > A few months ago, Mark of New Horizons was saying it was C='s fault for
- > not having the bullet.library available yet.... what's so important about
- > that library that you can't do currently with 2.04 CG fonts?
- >
- > Marc
-
- I can see many problems with sizing fonts acording to your printer but
- this could be a very mem hungry way but easy to implement.
- Sort of a virtual resolution, each pixel represents a pin on the
- printer. Realy true WYSIWYG. Offcource scrolling around is the only way to go
- but to fit on screen why not make a square of four pixels one and use a
- grey scale to represent them. ie. a 2x2 pixel could be represented by four
- shades 4x4 can be represented by 16 shades. the only one I know that comes
- close is PageStream. On a virtual WB you can create (given mem) a screan as
- big as you want. Very usable, very fast scrolling, better than the inbuilt
- routines. This was fast enough for my 4 meg A500 and it's FAST on my A3000
- George
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