wu@canon.co.uk (Siu-Fan WU) (12/05/90)
I have an application which uses printPSCode to print the drawings in a View object. The hardcopy obtained from the printer has the same resolution as the one on screen. Am I right to expect that the hardcopy should have higher resolution if the PS code is regenerated for it? Am I missing something? S.F. Wu wu@canon.co.uk Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd 17/20 Frederick Sanger Road Surrey Research Park Guildford, Surrey GU2 5YD United Kingdom
wgilbert@watmath.waterloo.edu (William Gilbert) (12/08/90)
In article <1990Dec5.121112.5794@canon.co.uk> wu@canon.co.uk (Siu-Fan WU) writes >I have an application which uses printPSCode to print the drawings in >a View object. The hardcopy obtained from the printer has the same resolution >as the one on screen. Am I right to expect that the hardcopy should have >higher resolution if the PS code is regenerated for it? Am I >missing something? It depends on whether the image is saved as a bitmap image or not. You can check which it is by saving to a file from the print panel and looking at the code with Edit. For example, the Draw application will save as normal PostScript, but Icon will save the bitmap image (in PostScript). Therefore printing out an image from Draw will give you better resolution than the screen, but printing from Icon will only give the screen resolution. _______________________________________________________________________ Will Gilbert, Pure Math Dept, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada wgilbert@math.UWaterloo.ca NeXT mail:wgilbert@fatou.UWaterloo.ca