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#PageSetter

    02-Jan-87 12:09:11
Sb: #46780-#PageSetter
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Todd Weiss 76526,1135
Todd, That's not necessairly true. For example, the screen is 640 pixels wide, while lots of dot matrix printers are 980 pixels wide. They just don't divide evenly. So even rounding off and saying the ratio between the screen and the printer is 2 to 3, what do you do with a single pixel? Do you print it as 1 pixel or 2 pixels? What about 3 pixels…do you print them as 4 pixels or 5 pixels? Do you do a 1 to 1 dump? Then what about the 1/3 of the printer width that isn't being used. I think the main thing to be realized is that this isn't a photograph…it's computer generated graphics and there is some difficulty translating screen pixels to print pixels when the ratio between the 2 is not 1 to 1 or 1 to 2 where the translation is easy. Don