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Article #9803Re: Typewriter Emulation Software for the Mac?
From: Eirikur Hallgrimsson
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 16:31
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 16:31
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In article <51020@bbn.COM>, levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) writes... >In article <25b3ec78.6cbb@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> rcfische@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Raymond C. Fischer) writes: >|I don't beleive this is possible. Not that the software would be especially >|difficult to write; it probably would take only a day or two. The problem >|is that the ImageWriter (like most dot-matrix printers) does not print >|characters one at a time. It collects an entire line of text then prints >|it all at once. Thus, characters are a uniform size and evenly spaced. I don't think this is true from my own experience doing fancy things with printers. If it was true of the Imagewriter, it would still be perfectly possible to fake the desired behavior by "printing" a line containing one character at a time, or better yet, by doing something in graphics mode. Eirikur Hallgrimsson eh@ddif.enet.dec.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!ddif.enet.dec.com From: eirikur@ddif.enet.dec.com (Eirikur Hallgrimsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Typewriter Emulation Software for the Mac? Message-ID: <7538@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 17 Jan 90 16:31:00 GMT Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Distribution: na Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 15