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From: daveb@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Berezowski GUEST)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Getting fonts printed out right
Message-ID: <1116@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 08:02:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 15 08:02:38 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 20:56:12 EST
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Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski GUEST)
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In article <569@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> ralph@ATRP.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Amiga-Man) writes:
>The question of why many programs do an exceptionally bad job of printing
>out things like fine line graphics and fonts has come up again.
	etc. etc. etc.
>such capability, but, jeese, GIVE ME AN OPTION TO SHUT IT OFF !
>                   --
>                   ||
>                  /  \
>                 /~~~~\
>  The Solution  |______|
>
>I use the screen dumper program posted by C Scheppner(sp?) which allows
>you to grab any screen or window and dump it to the printer after asking
>you all the right questions about "number of input pixels" and "output pixels"
>and "printing modes". This indeed gives the cherished 1:1, or 2:1 or whatever,
>types of printing that fine line graphics and fonts require. It works.
>I suppose I could send out a uuencoded executable.....or just the source...
>Heck, is this thing archived somewhere ?
>
>                                    Ralph...a gradual student
>                                "The future's so bright....I gotta wear shades"


	The other thing you MAY want to do here is select 'B&W' mode from
Preferences (as opposed to COLOR or GREY-SCALE).  COLOR and GREY-SCALE
both DITHER the image to get the desired effect, HOWEVER B&W does NO
dithering what-so-ever and thus preserves all the pixels.  B&W mode can be
thought of like a photo-copier with the 'THRESHOLD' value acting like the
contrast (or darkness) control.  It simply decides which colors will print
as white and which colors will print as black.  IF one selects an inverted
image (ie. black is white and white is black) then the threshold value will
flip accordingly.

	Hope you find this info useful.  PS. I agree with you totally re
programs not giving the user the chance to 'play' with the printer input
values.  I've passed my 2-cents worth on to EA, AEGIS, etc re having some
sort of printer requestor come up BUT no one has done it yet.  Tis a shame.

	Regards, David Berezowski