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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

2891.0. "NecFC uploaded" by FRAMBO::BALZER (Christian Balzer DTN:785-1029) Tue Sep 05 1989 07:25

    
    And we did it again... ;-)
    
    Announcing: NecFC
    
    NecFC will allow the proud owners of Nec PinWriters to download
    standard AmigaFonts to their printers, plus some more bells and
    whistles.
    The whole sheebang can be grapped as usually from:
    
    FRAMBO::BZOEVFL:[BALZER.AMIGA.NECFC]
    
    Have fun,
                                         
    <CB>
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2891.1Tell us more?HPSCAD::GATULISFrank GatulisWed Sep 06 1989 09:0215
    
    CB,
    
    Could you expand on this a bit more? My question is "what's the
    advantage of downline loading Amiga fonts to my NEC"?  Do they
    look any better than if I do a bitmaped print from my word processor?
    
    I have a P2200  with download capability (like the P6) and I've never
    been able to figure out how the feature could be exploited on the
    Amiga.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Frank
    
2891.2You're not gonna squeeze anything outta me ;-)FRAMBO::BALZERChristian Balzer DTN:785-1029Wed Sep 06 1989 10:3112
    Re: .1
    
    Well the advantage of this is simply the fact that you're not
    restricted to a word processor with screen dump option.
    Plus some little details like speed (it takes much longer to dump
    a screen than using a downloaded font to print the text) and the fact 
    that indeed a downloaded font will usually look much better than
    a DumpRastPort()'ed one.
    
    Hope this clears some fog,
    
    <CB>
2891.3exHPSCAD::GATULISFrank GatulisWed Sep 06 1989 11:214
    Thanks.  I'll have to give it a try.
    
    Frank