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1 total messages Started by Walt Lazear Thu, 08 May 1986 17:24
Micro Illustrator file formats
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Author: Walt Lazear
Date: Thu, 08 May 1986 17:24
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My Dad bought Micro Illustrator for his Radio Shack PC clone, but later
found out the only printer they support are $1600 ink jet ones!  This seemed
patently ridiculous to me, since the print image is stored on a file and
the format of the file is known to some oftware.  Why couldn't it be
interpreted by a program and sent to a dot matrix printer.  After all,
on a monochrome screen, it' only pixels.  

Can anyone tell me the format of the print file?  I am assuming that
Micro Illutrator files are compatible across systems (and that the
same is true of their print file).  On the other hand, maybe the data
file itself should be the one decoded.  Anyone know THAT format?  That
one should be even more compatible across systems, and I know there
are programs that can manipulate THOSE files.  Thanks in advance.

	Walt (Lazear at Mitre.arpa)
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