[comp.sys.mac] Color QD on Printers

rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) (01/22/88)

I've not had any problems using the Color Quickdraw calls - my plotting 
program can draw color graphs on a Mac II screen, and print those same graphs 
on the LaserWriter. Of course, they do come out black - I wish the LaserWriter 
driver would substitute grayscale for color...

But otherwise no problems.

		-Rich

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Richard Siegel
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Carnegie-Mellon University, Confused Physics Major
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edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;YF37) (01/23/88)

In article <MVxq94y00Xc24-40xB@andrew.cmu.edu> rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) writes:
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>I've not had any problems using the Color Quickdraw calls - my plotting 
>program can draw color graphs on a Mac II screen, and print those same graphs 
>on the LaserWriter. Of course, they do come out black - I wish the LaserWriter 
>driver would substitute grayscale for color...

Amen!  It seems pretty to easy to do for the original 8 colors in the old ROM,
as all you'd need is a setgray command here and there.  With full color of
Color QuickDraw, it still seem straight forward except when doing a CopyBits()
from a color grafport.  Here you'd have to do a NTSC monochrome conversion and
then an image command.

Edward Moy
Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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