clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon) (03/11/91)
The subject says it all...Has POST v1.4 been released yet and
where is it available?
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Craig Lemon - Kitchener, Ontario. Amiga B2000/10--2400 bps--AmigaUUCP 1.03D
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....!{uunet}!watmath!xenitec!lemsys!clemon |nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo) (03/11/91)
clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon) said: > The subject says it all...Has POST v1.4 been released yet and > where is it available? I have the very latest version of Post, v1.5. I will upload it to abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov tonight as /incoming/amiga/post15.lzh. nj
fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (03/13/91)
Yes it has, and it's on Fish #446, and undoubtedly on the Fish FTP sites...
--Rick Wrigley
fhwri@conncoll.bitnet
~~~second-hand smoke is THEFT~~~hb136@leah.albany.edu (Herb Brown) (03/13/91)
In article <47356@nigel.ee.udel.edu> fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu writes: >Yes it has, and it's on Fish #446, and undoubtedly on the Fish FTP sites... > > --Rick Wrigley > fhwri@conncoll.bitnet > ~~~second-hand smoke is THEFT~~~ POST 1.5 is on ff-468. Herb
spworley@athena.mit.edu (Spaceman Spiff) (03/14/91)
I downloaded and ran Post 1.5 on my 3000. Have to admit the program is pretty slick- its interface is ideal for the Amiga, and you have nice printer/iff/screen options. There are PS fonts out there, so that's not a problem. This is the kind of functionality I'd like to have in any program I'd make. Of course, I think it's output quality is completely unusable. The first thing I tried was a "fountain", a patch that gradually fades from gray=0 to gray=1 as it moves left to right. What I got was trash- half of the box was solid black, half of the box was a perfect latticework 50% gray. Apparently Post maps gray=0 to white, 0<gray<=.5 to 50% gray, and the rest black. No intermediate halftone shades. Sheesh! There's little point in using this program unless you are doing solid blacks. Hoping this only happened on the screen display, I made an IFF. Same problem. I printed it on my dot matrix printer. Same thing. I sent the raw file to a postscript printer (not using Post at all) --> beautiful. I realize I am being very harsh. There is a chance that I was doing something wrong or I had a bum copy (although my 1.3 version did it too!) and I'm more than willing to revoke my criticism if Post CAN be coaxed into doing grays. (In fact, I'll write some more praise on its interface!) Until a new version comes out (or someone tells me "you bonehead! Switch this on!") I'm going to have to live without screen-display PS on my Amiga. The current version of Post (1.5) is just unusable. In summary, a great program is made nearly useless by the non-implementation of an essential PostScript feature. -Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Worley spworley@athena.mit.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------