This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Andy, If straight PCL is all you need, you ought to be able to connect a PCL driver to FILE: and print to disk, right? You'd have to do some editing to the file afterwards, though. Steve
Bill, How you handle this will depend on the tools the Mac SB has available, yes? My first thought was to suggest dumping raster files on them. Corel then has complete control over the graphics/text et al. Run the graphics out as TIFF, let the SB pull them in and…
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Big Prints?
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John, Are you talking about b/w or color illustrations? If b/w, you could have them run out on an imagesetter at 2450 dpi then enlarged photographically by any photo lab that does prints of the size you need. Rather than running out a positive, I'd check with the lab, find…
Donna: Thanks for the detailed answer … and now that I've seen it, I realize that I should have known it from the start! Of COURSE the Windows driver is going to be handling the TrueType conversions. (palm striking forehead) And of course, since the missing FontBBox info from the…
I just had to throw this in … once in a while you DO get a reward from heaven. A while back, a customer handed us the most complicatedly insane (or maybe it was insanely complicated) drawing … and wanted it traced into some slides we were doing for him.…
Dave: I'll chime in here too … Corel Trace is definitely not Ma & Pa. But with the number of options it gives you, you just have to spend the time to learn how to do it. You probably would have to do the same with ANY tracing program you…
Paul: No question that if we were talking about output to a non-continuous tone PS device (ie, laser printer, imagesetter) your advice is on the money. As life would have it, however, he was talking about making slides (smack me if I'm wrong there) and that means continuous tone, and…