daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) (10/27/87)
in article <1822@cadovax.UUCP>, keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) says: >>>>My wife refused to countenance any money spent on another Amiga >>>>program- she used DPaint too until we realized we could not print. >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Actually, this is one issue to which I can agree. I bought the $199 > Cannon inkjet, and the basic output via DPaint does suck. But it's not > the printers fault, and I don't really think it was DPaint's fault, > it's apparently the fact that C= felt that the way to handle unknown > resolution printers was to scale bitmaps, and this tends to take forever > and look like shit. No, it's mainly DPaint's fault. They CHOSE to print everything in scaled, equivalent aspect ratio mode. The Amiga's printer.device can do much better than that. But only if the programmer chooses to let the user have access to that capability. Commodore-Amiga can be blamed for some of the speed problems in general; Dave B. can tell you more about that. > The MacIntosh seems to get around this somehow, perhaps > by avoiding the problem by making you buy an Apple approved printer of > a known resolution and making sure all Apple approved printers have > close enough resolution so that they don't have to scale the bitmaps. That sounds reasonable. As long as your dot matrix printer is 144 DPI, or whatever the magic Apple number is, then you wouldn't need scaling. > Keith Doyle > # {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd Contel Business Systems 213-323-8170 -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga Usenet: {ihnp4|caip|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh "The B2000 Guy" PLINK : D-DAVE H BIX : hazy "Computers are what happen when you give up sleeping" - Iggy the Cat