Re: ImageWriter LQ on IIgs

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5dql93$qra@agate.xara.net>, Richard  <rtk@scotborders.co.uk> wrote:
>What's the best way to get decent output - at the moment it looks worse
>than my IW II - and I have ALL font sizes loaded (as was necessary on the
>Mac, but the IIgs doesn't seem to look for matched sizes for the DPI at
>all. 10pt definitely isn't 10pt)

   Have fonts 2-4x available of what you want to print, or use
Westcode Software's Pointless, which allows you to use Truetype fonts.

   Be aware that since the system software has a limitation of a 255
point size (Apple was pretty braindead when they wrote that bit of
code, sorry Apple worshippers), the maximum high quality font you'll
get out of a printer is 63 points for a 300dpi printer (requiring a
font 4x larger than the ~72dpi screen, so its max is 255/4), 127 for a
~150dpi printer.

Nathan Mates
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