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shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) writes:

>In article <groot.721065728@jupiter.idca.tds.philips.nl> groot@idca.tds.philips.nl (Henk de Groot) writes:
>>   Both fractint 17.1 AND 17.2 respond on the argument
>>   rleps=yes or 'rleps=yes' or "rleps=yes" with a humming sound and the
>>   message:
>>   *** Error during startup:

>I guess the rleps option didn't get into fractint yet, so ignore my previous
>suggestion of using rleps to fix the color printing problem.

Yes, rleps is not in the DOS Fractint. (Ken knows this - the following is
for everybody else) Ken's Xfractint represents the current state of the
Fractint developer's version, which is not public. Therefore typically there
will be features in Xfract that are not yet in the PC DOS-based Fractint.

The reason for this is that the Fractint authors get a lot of mail and 
questions about Fractint, and we do not want to have to support developer's
versions that change every few days. In the case of Xfract, Ken's doing
the supporting so it's his call :-) Fractint v 18 with rleps will be out
sometime early next year. 

A side comment - with the exception of the ever-improving postscript support,
Fractint printing capability is pretty bad. There is no attempt to render
colors as dithered shades. Folks "in the know" save as GIF and print with
other software. PICLAB does a really good job with HP printers. 
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Tim Wegner     Fractint co-author
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