Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!rutgers!cbmvax!carolyn From: carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Re: The trouble with the Amiga Message-ID: <1119@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 16:15:43 EST Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1119 Posted: Mon Dec 15 16:15:43 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 23:15:19 EST References: <1257@cadovax.UUCP> <1118@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 25 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=