| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 7 Mar 2001 at 14:17:19 |
| Subject: | Re: .tp |
Hello Bill
On 07-Mar-01, Bill Eaves wrote:
> Hello Paul
>
> On 06-Mar-01, Paul Hill wrote:
>
>> Not sure about turboprint but there was a regular printer driver
>> years ago
>> that saved the printout as an IFF picture.
>
> You wouldn't happen to know what it was would you ?
>
>> Is there nothing similar for TP? (or can TP be told to use a regular
>> driver?)
>
> TP can be set to use the standard drivers. That is the way I can send
> to TrapFAX while still using TP - I just have a TP config that uses
> the standard driver. So it should work similarly if I find the driver
> that prints to an IFF.
It only prints in 8 colours, so may not do what you want. I can mail it
to you if you want it.
Pagestream will print to a 24-bit IFF file, but with no anti-aliasing,
so it is best to print about 50% larger than you want and scale down.
How big do you want the images? If a paint program can handle the size
you want, it should work OK. Again, if the program doesn't have
anti-aliasing built in, make the image bigger and scale down. True
Brilliance, Art Effect, ImageFX, ADPro etc will put text onto an image.
So will DPaint, but it tends to choke on images bigger than video size.
You need to be sure you are using an outline font (CG, TrueType or Type
1) to get good results. Install the latest version of Type 1 Engine from
Aminet. Presumably you have the TTF library installed.
PPaint does very nice anti-aliased text, but will only handle 8-bit
images. IIRC this applies also to Scala.
Regards
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