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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: (~long) Print Problems (was:  The trouble with the Amiga)
Message-ID: <1274@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 13:14:14 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1274
Posted: Mon Dec 22 13:14:14 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Dec-86 00:00:30 EST
References: <2373@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <2373@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> hutch@sdcsvax.UUCP (Jim Hutchison) writes:
>Q.  How does this relate to this stuff about square pixels?
>A.  Sadly, many printers do not have square pixels.
>
>    That is a major bummer.  How do you force them to become square?  You
>    apply a rendering technique to map the source bitmap onto the funky
>    destination bitmap.  Apparently it is not a simple thing :-).

What I want is the option to NOT try to force them to become square.  I
want to print AS IF the printer WAS square even if it's not, and then take
the hit in the aspect ratio.  Much of the time text can survive a little
aspect-raito squeezing, and I can pick and choose fonts to make it better.
As long as I DON'T have the option to do a 1 to 1 (pixel, not aspect-ratio)
dump, I may not be able to get usable text at all!

Keith Doyle
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