Re: stylewriter and GS question

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.980211231022.11761A-100000@hermes.ulaval.ca>,
MATHIEU CHENARD  <aac794@agora.ulaval.ca> wrote:
>     I'm using the original StyleWriter with the GS/OS 6.0 driver and it
>works really well. The colors are not printed like grayscales (as I do
>with the StyleWriter II driver on a Mac driving the original StyleWriter)
>but are printed like the lines of the AppleSoft SHR commands on a
>monochrome monitor.

   Vertical striping? That's a feature of how the GS does dithered
colors in 640 mode. [And if you used pure colors, things would look
worse.] Not sure if the newer and improved Stylewriter driver in the
latest Harmonie published by Joe Kohn/Shareware Solutions II does
anything better.

>     I used an old version of Pointless. It was interesting: you can have
>really large fonts on screen (really cute for HyperCard stacks) and you
>can get them from anywhere so the documents are like those you do on Mac
>or PC. But I had troubles when I printed to the StyleWriter: I was not
>able to get font bigger than 36 points and I often got letters shrinked
>together or misaligned on the horizontal line... I don't know if this
>problem is still present with the last version.

   Big fonts take lotsa ram (remember, it must render them 4x larger
internally to go out to the printer as the printer's got 4x the
resolution). So, make sure you're not running the system out of ram in
the process (if 2MB or less total RAM, that's a distinct possibility).
Pointless 2.0.x is better about RAM usage (only renders the characters
as needed, not the whole font), and also carried by Joe Kohn/SSII.
Drop by http://www.crl.com/~joko for pricing details, etc.

Nathan Mates

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