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Article #46637Re: Better inter-application graphi
From: Marc T. Kaufman
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 05:28
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 05:28
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In article <126900187@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes: .My general impression is that MacDraw II is too flakey. v1.1 doesn't .seem to export pictures at > 72dpi precision... .Aligning something at 400% does not guarantee alignment when printed .on a postscript laser printer. Often, I had to align something at .1600% in order to get the needed results. I suspect this problem is .due to a lack of understanding of numerical analysis on the part of .the software architects. This problem is so fundamental, that I have .abandoned using the software. Now I use canvas. Actually, you should align at 417% to get exact matches with the Laserwriter. OR set the exact-bitmaps bit in the LW dialog (giving you exactly 4:1 scaling) Marc Kaufman (kaufman@neon.stanford.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!decwrl!shelby!neon!kaufman From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Better inter-application graphi Message-ID: <1990Feb21.052834.9577@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 21 Feb 90 05:28:34 GMT References: <1017@ucl-cs.UUCP> <126900187@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 16