Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!ncar!boulder!tramp!sanford From: sanford@tramp.Colorado.EDU (SANFORD STEPHEN LEE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Geos 2.0 Summary: Printer Output Keywords: GEOS Commodore Berkeley Softworks Message-ID: <3696@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 26 Sep 88 20:06:53 GMT References: <255@c10sd3.StPaul.NCR.COM> <1205@umbc3.UMD.EDU> Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: sanford@tramp.Colorado.EDU (SANFORD STEPHEN LEE) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 17 In article <1205@umbc3.UMD.EDU> pete@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Pete Hsi (C)) writes: > >A year ago I flamed GEOS 1.(?) about its poor printer output quality... >Although I never received any responses to this particular flame, I want >to know if this problem is solved in GEOS 2.0. > >Yes, I've seen an GEOS output from a laser printer and it is UGLY! >--Pete Hsi GEOS output to a laser printer looks bad unless you use fonts specifically designed for a higher resolution than a dot-matrix printer. GEOS 2.0 and the Writer's Workshop disks have those fonts (LW_Roma, etc). But if you use other fonts, especially the bigger-sized ones, the output looks really cheap... Steve Sanford Jr.