rminnich@dewey.udel.EDU (Ronald G. Minnich) (12/18/86)
I seem to have hit on something with the Amiga printer comment. If people with Laser printers cannot get decent output then the machine has a real problem! One idea I am working on would be to have the printer DRIVER pop up a requestor with lots of gadgets. One gadget could be the 'go do it and shut up' gadget; others could set the various fancy bits to get what you wanted. I think this is more consistent with the Amiga philosiphy than to have each application decide how to present the user with a printer. Another option would be to have the driver give you an idea what the page would look like but that is one hell of a lot harder, obviously. BTW Tom notice that I did not say i bought textcraft, mainly cause I knew it stunk. And also notice what i did say: The day they carted the Macs into the stores a random user could draw a picture, clip it into a document, and get a pretty little printout on an Imagewriter. From DAY ONE, not one year later. The Amiga can not do that now! If it does not do it soon it is going to lose its niche, since color/multitasking are not going to be unique for much longer. ron
daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) (12/20/86)
> > From DAY ONE, not one year later. The Amiga can not > do that now! If it does not do it soon it is going to lose > its niche, since color/multitasking are not going to be unique > for much longer. > > ron Well, my copy of PageSetter seems to handle this quite nicely, right now. Hey, look at how long the Mac's been out, they're on at least the third revision, and they still don't have it right, the thing isn't NTSC compatible, doesn't multitask, and it can't be hooked up easily to anything other than that silly little 9" monitor. So hey, chill out. They're two completely different machines. Each has its strengths and weaknesses. If anything, the Amiga looks stronger; its already doing things a Mac can't do, and the Mac's had a several year head start. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dave Haynie {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh "Laws to supress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security." -Bene Gesserit Coda These opinions are my own, though for a small fee they may be yours too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~