Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: more complaints about QuickDraw support on LaserWriter Message-ID: <1479@uw-beaver> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 13:41:46 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1479 Posted: Wed Aug 7 13:41:46 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 01:54:16 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 22 From: stew%lhasa@harvard.arpa The reason for the atrocities you mention (I agree with your appelation) is to maintain compatibility with QuickDraw. Remember that the QuickDraw pen is rectangular and hangs below and to the right of the current point as it traces the line. Laser Prep simulates this obnoxious behavior. I can't complain enough about Apple's poor support for high quality laserprinting. And I still don't have a good way to send PostScript to the laserprinter from a Macintosh application. My favorite arrowhead is an isoceles triangle with a circle cut out of it. For example: /ArrowHead { newpath 1 0 moveto -.333 0 .333 135 225 arc closepath fill } def will draw an arrowhead of unit length along the X axis with the base of the arrowhead at the origin.