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- From: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Is there a fix for FullWrite/HP DeskWriter incompatibility?
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 11:29:54 PST
- Organization: Fifth Generation Systems
- Message-ID: <0105010A.htdhid@salient.com>
- Reply-To: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software)
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- In article <1992Nov5.160131.5547@gvl.unisys.com> (comp.sys.mac.apps), dave@prc.unisys.com (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
- >
- > On my recommendation, a friend of mine just bought an HP DeskWriter.
- > Unfortunately it now turns out that the DeskWriter is partially
- > incompatible with his el cheapo word processing program, FullWrite.
- > He says that letters come out "ectomorphic," not true, rich blacks.
- ...
- Sounds like the base styles for text is set to a gray scale setting.
- This will result in a lightening of the text on printout. You need
- to keep in mind that FullWrite is "feature rich" and if you do not
- set the base styles correctly ALL documents created will share those
- settings.
-
- > He had previously had some problems printing from this program on his
- > old ImageWriter, mostly letter-spacing problems.
- ...
- Again "feature rich". Kerning?
-
- > I suspect that FullWrite, being a port, doesn't properly use the 13
- > "bottleneck" QuickDraw routines, and that is the source of the
- > problems. If so, it would seem that a real fix is very unlikely...but
- > I thought I'd ask.
- ...
- FullWrite is NOT a "port". It was originaly written by Ann Arbor
- Software (I may have the name wrong) and the rights to the "Full"
- prefix along with all software was acquired by Ashton-Tate so that
- they could use the name FullImpact. Ashton-Tate basically abandoned
- all the acquired software. Since the acquisition of Ashton-Tate by
- Borland it looks like the same fate awaits FullWrite that is experienced
- at Ashton-Tate. It's too bad because FullWrite has some features
- that come in very handy.
-
- The opinions expressed are mine.
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