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- Fractal Design PainterX2 version 2.0 for Windows - September 09, 1993
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-
- This file contains last minute information which could not be included
- in the manual.
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-
- GDI Printing To Black & White Printers
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-
- This option is only available when GDI Printing is selected. The
- option "Print Grayscale" has been added to the Print dialog. Choose
- this button when printing to grayscale or black and white printers.
- The number of gray levels used will depend on the printer, but the
- maximum number of gray levels supported is 256. Printing is much
- faster with this option on, and it can also be used with color
- printers if quick grayscale output is desired.
-
-
- GDI Printing Quality & Speed
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-
- This section only applies when GDI Printing is selected. Some of the
- notes in the manual regarding the "No Print Banded" option may no
- longer be valid, so it is suggested that you experiment with this
- option to get the best quality and speed with your printer. This
- option is found by choosing the Edit menu, Set Preferences menu item,
- and then the Windows Setup button. Sometimes, the best setting for
- "No Print Banded" will be different for Portrait and Landscape
- printing.
-
-
- HP Color Printers (such as HP550C)
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-
- When GDI Printing in Landscape mode to an HP Color Printer, you may
- notice band-like artifacts. This reduction in quality is due to a
- bug in the HP Windows printer drivers. We have isolated the exact
- cause of this bug and HP has acknowledged that the bug exists in
- their driver. You must contact HP to obtain a new Windows printer
- driver once they have fixed the bug. We have gone to great expense
- to make it as easy as possible for HP to fix this problem, as we even
- wrote a special print test application which was forwarded to HP.
-
-
- Using Masking Brushes
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-
- There is a new brush library (mask.brs). There are two ways to make
- these new masking brushes available in the PainterX2 Brush Palette
- window.
-
- 1) You can add the masking brushes to the existing brush library
- which you are currently using. To do this, select Brush Mover
- from the Options menu, click on the Open button and select the
- masking brush file (mask.brs). Now, all of the new masking
- brushes will appear on the right side of the Brush Mover dialog.
- Select the masking brushes you want to add and click on the Copy
- button. Now, those masking brushes will be added to your current
- brush library on the left side of the dialog. You will have to be
- careful when using this new brush library with Painter 2.0a, see
- Painter 2.0a Notes below.
-
- 2) You can select the masking brush library (mask.brs) as the current
- brush library. To do this, select the Brush Palette from the
- Windows menu. If the Library button is not visible in the Brush
- Palette window, click on the maximize button. Now, click on the
- Library button at the bottom of the Brush Palette window and select
- the masking brush file (mask.brs). You can not use the masking
- brushes with Painter 2.0a, see Painter 2.0a Notes below.
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- PainterX2 Improvements
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-
- In addition to those mentioned in the manual, the speed of drawing with
- brushes has been improved, as compared with Painter 2.0. Improvements
- ranging from 20% for the Fat Eraser to 79% faster for Large Water have
- measured on the 486DX. In most cases, these speed increases may only
- be noticeable in the time it takes to replay a session.
-
-
- Importing EPS Files
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-
- Do not attempt to use complex EPS files as friskets. PainterX2 is a
- paint program, not a draw program, and the Open EPS command is not
- intended to import complex drawings.
-
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- Painter 2.0a Notes
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-
- PainterX2 will be installed in the same directory as your existing
- Painter 2.0a. You can still run Painter 2.0a after installing PainterX2,
- but you need to be aware of the following minor problems.
-
- 1) You can not use the masking brushes (mask.brs) with Painter 2.0a.
- If you have copied the masking brushes into an existing brush
- library (as described in Using Masking Brushes above), you can
- still use this library with Painter 2.0a, as long as you do not
- select any of the masking brushes (in the Brush Palette).
-
-
- General Notes
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-
- If it ever becomes necessary to re-install PainterX2, such as when some
- files may have become corrupted, it may also be necessary to re-install
- Painter 2.0a before PainterX2. However, this will overwrite any changes
- made to such things as preferences, default brush file, etc..
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-
- Shelby Moore
- Fractal Design Corporation
-