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- From: gad@fncrd6.fnal.gov (greg deuerling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Provector questions
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:45:59 GMT
- Organization: Fermilab
- Lines: 47
- Message-ID: <1ebi5nINNm4e@fnnews.fnal.gov>
- References: <1992Nov14.012042.18721@ichips.intel.com> <1992Nov17.070932.5595@ichips.intel.com> <1992Nov17.190258.5849@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.190258.5849@news.acns.nwu.edu> vsanchez@casbah.acns.nwu
- .edu (Victor Sanchez) writes:
-
- > The lack of lines with arrows (although
- >the provided me with a couple of ARREX scripts for doing that, which work
- >very well). Letter drawing seems very slow in a package that prides itself
- >in being very fast, I do not know if font cacheing is being done.
-
- I saw some time ago from a post from Ross that lines with arrows would be
- supported in the next version of P.V.
-
- >There are other minor details, like, when using the symbol font, I would like
- >to see the actual font in the requester and not the roman version of it (i.e.
- >they need to provide a map from amigados type fonts to actual ProVector font).
- >I have a slow Amiga (an A1000 running 2.04) and large requesters like the
- >fill and border ones take a long time to draw, a simple set of requesters
- >would provide faster access to them. What I have done is to have all the
- >possible preferences I use, not many, defined in AREXX macros so that can
- >do the all the changes with a single menu invocation, etc. Nothing that a A4000
- >would not fix :-).
-
- Have you talked to their tech support ??? These sound like great ideals, and
- these guy's seem to bend over backwards to please you.
-
- > Victor
-
- >PS, I would like PSimport to import the text also, at least if I have
- >the font available. I have to import scientific drawings and plots, which
- >are full of text.
-
- I talked to one of the tech. support guys some time back, and he said they
- have had lots o complaints that PSimport does not import fonts with the
- EPS file, he also said that it would more than likley be in the next version.
-
- >>--- // -------------------------------------------------------------------
- >>Mark Waggoner waggoner@ichips.intel.com (503) 696-4182
- >> \X/ Faster chips for a better tomorrow
- >
- >
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