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- From: adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap)
- Subject: Re: A1000 w/ ProWrite, Final Copy, and Prof Draw???
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- References: <1992Nov18.191317.5255@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:10:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.191317.5255@ennews.eas.asu.edu> kanko@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Mark Kanko) writes:
- >
- >Sorry if I'm asking some FAQs, but I haven't been on this group for
- >quit awhile. I'll make it short and sweet.
- >
- >I've go an A1000 with 2.5 Meg and a 40-M Xetec HD hooked to an
- >Okidata OL400 laser printer (HPII emulation). I bought ProWrite
- >3.2 last year in hopes of getting an application on par with
- >MS-Word, but I was miserably disappointed. A typical 300dpi
- >12-pt Times text-only page takes 4-7 minutes to print. Not
- >only that, but the quality of the printout is terrible, "High
- >Quality" mode gives me garbage, printer font numbers don't work
- >(yeah, I know: "It's not New Horizon's fault that the printer
- >driver doesn't support it..."), I only get a few displayed lines
- >on my screen in non-interlace, etc., etc., etc. In short, my old
- >Zenith 286 running Word for Windows ran circles around this combo.
- >I am on the verge of selling the ProWrite and buying Final Copy II.
- >
- >Ques 1: Will I see the advertised speed increase with FC II and
- >my system? Will I be able to successfully (i.e., see smooth,
- >300 dpi resolution on the printed page) use the "included"
- >outline fonts with my OL400 and get pages out faster than 8 min per?
-
- Yes, there is a significant speed increase.
- And yes you can get 300 DPI resolution on any printed page if your
- printer supports it. Since the outline fonts are printed as graphics,
- you cannot get 8 pages per minute. (On any laser printer with any
- computer, printing graphics is not as fast as printing text).
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- >
- >Ques 2: I want to get Professional Draw 3.0. Same basic questions
- >as above, but mainly will I be limited on output quality on my
- >non-Postscript printer and what should I expect for speed (or lack
- >thereof) on my unaccelerated A1000.
- >
- >Any advice EMAILED to me would be greatly appreciated. I'm a full-
- >time student and don't have a whole lot of time to research all
- >this. I'm especially interested if you're using a A1000 and/or
- >the OL400. Thanks, all.
- >
- >Mark
- >kanko@asuvax.eas.asu.edu
- >
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