richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (02/16/88)
When I first got the canon, a couple of evenings messing around
brought me to the conclusion that setting the page size to 640 x 770,
left margin 1, right margin 89, height 100% width 100% would
give me a 1:1 mapping from screen pixels to printer pixels.
That, for some obscure reason, doesnt work any more. It worked
once on saturday, but I cant reproduce it again.
Now it wants 640 x 825.
Anything else looks yucky.
????
--
"He tried to do his best, but he could not"
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM
{ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax, rutgers!marque, codas!ddsw1} gryphon!richarddaveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski) (02/17/88)
In article <2571@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > >When I first got the canon, a couple of evenings messing around >brought me to the conclusion that setting the page size to 640 x 770, >left margin 1, right margin 89, height 100% width 100% would >give me a 1:1 mapping from screen pixels to printer pixels. > >That, for some obscure reason, doesnt work any more. It worked >once on saturday, but I cant reproduce it again. > >Now it wants 640 x 825. > >Anything else looks yucky. > >???? > > >-- > "He tried to do his best, but he could not" > richard@gryphon.CTS.COM > {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax, rutgers!marque, codas!ddsw1} gryphon!richard Get a hold of a utility writing by Andy Finkel called 'Control' (or PrtControl, or ControlPrt); it has been submitted to Fred Fish I believe. This neat hack wedges itself in the DumpRPort command of the printer device and brings up a requestor whenever a graphic dump is performed. The requestor allows you to play with all the input parameters to the routine so that you can ALWAYS get what you want. Fortunately for V1.3 a lot of this type of control has been moved to Preferences; don't know when it will be out though.
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (02/18/88)
In article <3331@cbmvax.UUCP> daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski) writes: >In article <2571@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >> >>When I first got the canon, a couple of evenings messing around >>brought me to the conclusion that setting the page size to 640 x 770, >>left margin 1, right margin 89, height 100% width 100% would >>give me a 1:1 mapping from screen pixels to printer pixels. >> >>Now it wants 640 x 825. >> > > Get a hold of a utility writing by Andy Finkel called 'Control' >(or PrtControl, or ControlPrt); it has been submitted to Fred Fish I >believe. This neat hack wedges itself in the DumpRPort command of the >printer device and brings up a requestor whenever a graphic dump is >performed. The requestor allows you to play with all the input parameters >to the routine so that you can ALWAYS get what you want. One can already do this with Dpaint II by adjusting the page size (height) while keeping the width constant, true ? Or does this PrtControl thing allow you to change other things ? More to the point, what is the formula that maps screen pixels into printer pixels. It would be nice to be able to *compute* what page size to use rather than keep printing out pages of diagonal lines. More more to the point, whay happened to 640 x 770 that it now requires 640 x 825 ? > Fortunately for V1.3 a lot of this type of control has been moved >to Preferences; don't know when it will be out though. I know somebody who has this. It looks real neat. They only have Epson drivers though :-( -- "My life is changing in so many ways, I don't know who to trust any more" richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax, rutgers!marque, codas!ddsw1} gryphon!richard