Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!sunybcs!sbcs!lean From: lean@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Lean L. Loh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: PageStream Summary: pagestream desktop publishing Message-ID: <1868@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 1 Dec 88 04:26:35 GMT References: <759@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 34 In article <759@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>, pa1132@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (pa1132) writes: > I just have the chance to play around with a friend's copy of the > current version of PageStream. It prints text fine, with different > kinds of fonts in different angles no problem. > However, it cannot accept Degas pictures (it crashes), and > other graphics such as > Easy-Draw files cannot be printed out correctly. The most amazing > part of this program is that is takes 40 minutes to print out a page > on a regular 9-pin dot matrix printer at the resolution of 120x144 > (dots per inch?). I don't know if that's the way PageStream supposes > to work? If you read the manual, you'll realize that you need the import modules to do any importing of graphics. Degas.imp, Degasc.imp, etc. are some of the graphics-importing modules that you need. Check page 1.1-3 of the manual. I've imported DEGAS uncompressed and compressed (and also a GEM metafile i think) picture files without any problem. I've printed stuff on my Panasonic 1091i 9-pin, and it took about 5-8 minutes per page. If you're using some BRAIN-DAMAGED print spooler, it may actually SLOW DOWN the printing process. Has anyone noticed that the TALL and WIDE style attributes have been removed? That means the old trick of printing 6 point size with TALL and WIDE on (hence getting an output of 12 point) and getting really fine character output is no longer possible. Printing 12 point in NORMAL style attribute on a 9-pin produces rather think/bold characters. ..Lean -- if you can dream it, you can do it. CSNET:lean@sbcs.csnet ... go sleep ARPA:lean@sbcs.sunysb.edu UUCP:{allegra, hocsd, philabs, ogcvax}!sbcs!lean