Re: Printing MAC bitmaps on GS

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article posty@triode.apana.org.au (Andrew Roughan) writes...
> 
>A friend is distressed because he is unable to mimic the printed output from
>a Macintosh on his Apple IIgs. Pointless allows fonts of comparable quality
>but there seems to be nothing that can be done with a bitmap which he
>converted from the Macintosh using SuperConvert. When printed from the Mac,
>the lines are very smooth, but when printed on the IIgs the lines are very
>jagged. No amount of doctoring with a magnification tool seems to help. Is
>there anything that can be done?

	Yes, as a matter of fact there is. If the Macintosh graphic image is 
640 x 480 pixels, convert it to a 320 x 200 (multiple screen) SuperHiRes APF 
image -- two screens wide, two screen in length so that it must be scrolled. 
Next load the image into a program such as Platinum Paint 2.0 and select 
"50% Actual Size" from the 'Print Setup' option under the 'File' menu. Print 
to your ImageWriter II and viola, beautiful non-jagged graphic images just 
as Pointless does with fonts! As I mentioned in past, cartoon images
found in alt.binaries.pictures.cartoons work quite well using this 
printing method. 

	Now, if only someone would write a companion program to go with
Pointless. Something that would scale graphic images to a double-size 
before getting sent to the printer (This is the cause of them problem
actually, bitmapped scaling just doubles each pixel, the reason things
look jagged. We need something that can enlarge the image without 
distorting it's original appearance, ie, Outline scaling).

>Andrew Roughan                 posty@triode.apana.org.au
>Apple // Sub-editor, "Applecations" magazine, Apple Users' Group, Sydney Oz!

Mitchell Spector
m_spect@pavo.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca