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- The postscript printer device included in this archive is Copyrighted
- by Integrated Systems Inc, 1987. All rights are reserved. It is put
- in the public domain for use by anyone for non-commercial use only.
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- Version 1.1
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- New features and enchancements:
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- - There was a bug that caused lines longer then 80 or 90
- characters to crach the machine. This has been fixed.
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- - Parallel Postscript printers can now be used. Version 1.0
- always assumed the a Postscript printer was serial, it
- just ignored the preferences setting. This version does
- not. However, this must be specified before the device
- is open. Once it is open, it can not be changed.
-
- - Non-printable characters are mapped into the special
- postscript characters.
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- Version 1.0
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- Text Support
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- The current AMIGA printer commands and ESCAPE sequences supported
- include line spacing, pitch, normal, bold, underlining, italics, the
- left margin, page length (in lines), and NLQ mode. NLQ mode switches
- between the Courier and Times Roman fonts (so does DRAFT/LETTER mode).
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- Raster Dumps
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- Currently 16 shades of gray form most pictures. The only exceptions are
- HAMs which use 256 shades, and "Black and White" mode which uses 2 shades.
- White is represented as the lightest color of gray except in the "Black
- and White" mode. The margins and page size in lines define the maximum
- print area. I think all of the different special modes are supported
- but I don't think they all have been tested. SPECIAL_ASPECT is supported
- but I was surprised that it does not seem to be used very much. I have
- tried printing from PAGESETTER (treating the LASERWRITER as a normal
- printer), GRABBIT (you have to use SIDEWAYS print), and DELUXE PAINT.
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- General
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- Raster dumps are treated like text when it comes to page boundaries.
- In other words, if a raster dump will not fit on the current page
- it is moved to the next page. When the printer device is closed the
- last page is ejected if there is text on it. The CMD_FLUSH used by
- DELUXE PAINT to abort raster dumps does not loose memory like the real
- printer device. The EXPUNGE call does not do any thing right now.
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- If anyone has any ideas or questions, I can be reached at:
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- Chris Nicotra
- Integrated Systems Inc.
- 1456 Greenmont CT.
- Reston, VA 22090
- (703) 471-7453
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- bix: nicotra
- Compuserve: 72466,765
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