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Re: Window Contents Directly to Printer [message #11357 is a reply to message #11247]

Fri, 20 March 1998 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

Senior Member

Sorry, I wanted to make one more point.

Samuel Haimov writes:

> Long time ago I tried to use PRINTER device and I found that
> the quality of the print is not very good.

Remember that what the Print_It program does is send a
*screen dump* of the graphics window to the printer. That
is, by definition, low resolution (i.e, 72 pixels per inch
as compared to 600 pixels per inch for most PostScript printers).

If you want high quality PostScript output, look at a program
like XWindow on my web page, a "smart" graphics window
that can send its contents to a PostScript file (or to the
PRINTER if you like, with 30 seconds of modification) in
the very highest resolution mode.

My book describes in quite a bit of detail exactly how
this is done.

Cheers,

David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting
E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Phone: 970-221-0438
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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		Window Contents Directly to Printer By: davidf on Wed, 18 March 1998 00:00
		Re: Window Contents Directly to Printer By: davidf on Fri, 20 March 1998 00:00
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