Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cbmvax!daveb From: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Re: The trouble with the Amiga Message-ID: <1120@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 21:54:24 EST Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1120 Posted: Mon Dec 15 21:54:24 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Dec-86 06:39:00 EST References: <1257@cadovax.UUCP> <1118@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1119@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski GUEST) Organization: DMB, Inc. Lines: 40 In article <1119@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) writes: >In article <1118@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: > > (RE: Appication non-support of 1:1 screen to printer dumps) > >> ... I could see >>DPaint I missing some of this, they were probably rushing to get it out, >>and they were the first. DPaint II, however, really has no excuses; >>neither does NotePad (since it was written a C-A). Its sounds like basic >>programmer laziness. > > I don't think it was "programmer laziness". A non-aspected pixel >for pixel dump distorts the aspect ratio of the original image. The >printout will be stretched in either X or Y (depending on the res of >the display screen). Fonts are stretched, the Clock becomes an oval, >etc. > > This was probably viewed as not desirable and therefore not >offered as an option. > >-- >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Carolyn Scheppner -- CBM >>Amiga Technical Support<< > UUCP ...{allegra,caip,ihnp4,seismo}!cbmvax!carolyn > PHONE 215-431-9180 >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I have to agree with daveh. At the very least the application programs could have offered the user the CHOICE of entering his/her own numbers for the printer dumps. I have been mentionting this stuff to the companys that produce programs that dump to the printer since the 'OLD' 1.0 days and STILL nobody has bothered to include a graphic dump requestor. Its a shame to have all those options go to waste. Maybe somebody could make a quick buck by providing a utility program that intercepts calls to the graphic dump routine and brings up a requestor so that user can twiddle the numbers. Oh well...just my two cents worth.