TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (01/13/89)
Unless the application (AWGS we were talking about) keeps both a
screen-bit-mapped version and a text/line-draw version of the document
you can't print at better than screen resolution. I gather from what
someone says it does that for text: suppose you were using an 8 point
font. Text on the screen would be displayed using the 8 point font, but
when it came time to printing it the program would instead use a 16
point font, halving the vertical and horizontal spacing.
So there still remains the question -- will it do that with the EPSON
driver, and what happens with draw graphics (lines, rectangles, circles,
ovals, etc.)?
By the way, the GS/OS Epson driver does work just fine with the HP
DeskJet (emulating an Epson). If you print out stuff from a paint
program like Paintworks Gold or Deluxe Paint II you do get continuous
lines -- horizontal and vertical are smooth, anythingelse of course is
slightly sawtoothed.
Both PWG and DP use teh GS/OS driver (if you change its name the name
they say their driver has changes too) but somewhat differently. Both
appear to only get 72 dpi, even though the printer can go up to 200.
Both provide a "50% reduction" mode; it works on PWG, not on DP. DP
claims to have "better text", "bettter color", and "draft" modes: I
can't tell any difference between them and between them and how PWG does
it.
What's interesting is that in both DPII and PWG the dialogues for Choose
Printer and Page SetUp are identical; the one for Page SetUP in fact
carries a (c) StyeWare notice. They have different Print dialogues:
the one for DPII also carries the (c) Styleware notice. (So you dont'
have to look it up, DPII is by El. Arts, PWG Activision/Version Soft.)
Since the printing seems to be determined by whatever it i{ that came
from Styleware (possibly the Epson driver) is it reaonable ot assume
that what I'd get from AWGS wouldn't be any different from what I get
from either DPII or PWG? (graphics and text)scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) (01/13/89)
From article <890112203133.137107@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>, by TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA: > > Since the printing seems to be determined by whatever it i{ that came > from Styleware (possibly the Epson driver) is it reaonable ot assume > that what I'd get from AWGS wouldn't be any different from what I get > from either DPII or PWG? (graphics and text) In a word, yes. You might get a slightly better idea of the type of output using MultiScribe or TopDraw. The text you get in the graphics programs is, I believe, converted to pixels while in the program, so they get no advantage out of printing in Better Text, whereas AWGS preserves text as text and gets better resolution from the double-sized fonts. -- Scott Lindsey, wombat | UUCP: {ames,apple,portal,sun,voder}!claris!scott Product Development | Internet: scott@claris.com | AppleLink: LINDSEY1 Claris Corp. | Disclaimer: These are not the opinions of Claris, (415) 960-4070 | Apple, the author, or anyone else living or dead.
scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) (01/13/89)
I just played with DPII and confirmed that it doesn't do high quality text
in Better Text. In fact, it loses some graphics (it printed my text but not
my grey oval, which somehow got lost in the picture scaling it would seem).
If you try draft mode, which would print nothing if it succeeded, DPII
switches back to Better Graphics without telling you (not entirely un-
acceptable).
I couldn't run PWG on my machine because of their silly memory requirement
test that I mentioned earlier here on comp.sys.apple.
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