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LaserTalk dumps the bit-map of the page in printer memory (or at least the portion which you have showing on the screen). On the Mac version, you can open a window as large as you can fit on your screen. If you make the window too large, however, there is a noticeable delay in painting the screen the because the info has to be transmitted over AppleTalk, which is not super fast for that amount of data. Each screen pixel represents one printer pixel, so the screen image is four times as large as that on the piece of paper (300 dpi / 72 dpi [resolution of Mac screen] = approx. 4). I'm not sure what you mean by your reference to "MacDraw", a Macintosh program.