Re: Amiga vs (IBM & Mac)

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From: Michael Robert Bromery
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 22:12

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In article <2hc1nh$khk@news.iastate.edu>,
Marc N. Barrett <barrett@iastate.edu> wrote:
>
>   You can see a symptom of the Amiga's totally broken printing system by
>looking at the PostScript driver that comes with 2.1 and 3.1.  Do you notice
>those "Vertical DPI" and "Horizontal DPI" boxes in the PrinterPS prefs
>program?  One of the primary purposes of PostScript is to get output that is
>totally resolution-independent.  IE: you can take the PS output, send it to
>a 2700 DPI imagesetter, and it will take advantage of all of the resolution
>of the imagesetter.  So why does the Amiga's PostScript driver produce PS
>files with hardcoded resolutions that totally negate PostScript's resolution-
>independent features?  It is because there is no way the Amiga's PostScript
>driver CAN'T be resolution-independent, since Amiga applications NEVER pass
>structured objects to the printing system.
>
>

     Well, first thing, this should've been put in advocacy. And plus, people
here don't really want hear about the machine that brings us the non-terminating
disk requestor in the OS. I'm sorry to say here, but after using the Macs
so much, I'm extremely proud using the Amiga instead.

 -- Mike Bromery.
  Email: davereed@wam.umd.edu

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