john13@garfield.UUCP (04/25/87)
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About a week ago, markr@garfield (Joseph Dawson) posted a message saying that
ProWrite could not print if you had only 512K. This is incorrect; you can
print, but
a) the disk that was tried had preferences set on "serial printer". I'm not
sure if it came that way, but I suspect it may have been shipped set to
LaserJet or some other serial printer
b) the supplied Epson driver is the old 1.1 version, which skips a little
too far for each line. Don't know why, since it is a 1.2 Workbench.
Joseph was misinformed by someone who had tried to print from it (not me)
without setting up properly.
There is over 100K free after loading ProWrite; however, junk (unneeded fonts
and such) stays around in memory to the extent that you may find yourself
unable to pull down menus, or resize or even close(!) a window. And if you
do close it, you may wind up with a windowless screen, unable to open even
a single document.
Aside from that the output was nice, and screen display good 'cept for the
flicker. I'm going to try a pop-up screen colour changer on it this
afternoon, because even the "dimmed" background is much brighter than I
use in DPaint II (640X400X1) when I'm in a Mac'ish mood *:^), foreground
black and background RGB = 5,5,5.
John