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- From: mek@guinan.psu.edu (Mark E. Kotanchek)
- Subject: Re: Freedom Of Press
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- Organization: Penn State Center for Academic Computing
- References: <kZeZwB5w165w@theporch.raider.net>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 14:05:56 GMT
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- In article <kZeZwB5w165w@theporch.raider.net> rowley@theporch.raider.net
- (Michael Rowland) writes:
- > suhlmann@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
- >
- > > I am interested in the programs Freedom of The Press and Freed. of
- Press
- > > Light. Could people who own or have used these progs. send me their
- > > opinions?
- > > I am interested in it to print FreeHand files both to a SupraFax modem
- > > and to a Deskwriter C. I don't know exactly what the programs do, is
- this
- > > something they could handle?
- > > I am hoping this is possible, because I only print postscript files
- > > occasionally and would much prefer to get color printer than buy a
- > > postscript laser printer.
- > >
- > You don't need Freedom of the Press to print PostScript documents on a
- > Hewlett-Packard DeskWriterC. Just use HP's printer driver which mimics
- > Apple's PrintMonitor.
- > Keep in mind, though, that what you will be printing out will be the
- > color PICT preview saved with the FreeHand EPS file, not the PostScript
- > instructions, and as such, it will be much lower resolution, and the
- > colors will be grainy. You can get around these limitations by choosing
- > colors carefully (try to avoid color combos that QuickDraw represents as
- > a dithered pattern... what they look like on an 8-bit monitor will
- > approximate what the QuickDraw output looks like)...and when you save
- the
- > FreeHand file, scale the image as big as you can get it without creating
- > too huge a file... at least 300% or so, and print it from a page layout
- > program such as Quark Xpress or PageMaker.
- >
- > I've had good results by opening the EPS file in PhotoShop and saving it
- > as a PICT or TIFF (you can open it at 300 dpi resolution that way
- instead
- > of 72). I believe ColorIt! can do the same for a lot less money than
- > PhotoShop.
- >
- > From what I've heard about Freedom of the Press, I wouldn't recommend it
- > for what you want to do.
- >
-
- I too am interested in the performance of a Postscript interpreter like
- Freedom of the Press. I'll disagree with Michael regarding the
- acceptability of the HP printer driver--I just tried to print a MATLAB
- plot out and got Imagewriter (72 dpi) resolution. You would think that
- given the plethora of high-resolution non-postscript printers available
- for the Mac, y'd be able to get high quality graphics--alas, such is not
- true. (Adobe stockholders can rest secure.)
-
- Mark.
- --
- Mark Kotanchek
- Guidance & Control Dept - 363 ASB
- Applied Research Lab/Penn State
- P.O. Box 30
- State College, PA 16804
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