[email protected] said: > Or if it is all text, the postscript file system is very good, it allows > control of the entire page formatting in preservation of accurate > alignments.
Postscript also does lines and circles and ... Usually it gets (much) better results with text than you get from gif/jpg when they are targeted for screen resolution. > A laser printer with 600 dpi is a very good graphics machine Keep in mind that the scale factor may be a bit off. If you draw a 1 inch line, it might be slightly more or less than an inch. It's easy to scale postscript. My linux system has a psresize command. (I haven't tried it, at least not recently.) With a bit of trial and error, you can get a very accurate result. I used to print gerber layers for PCBs on mylar. If you were doing mechanical checks, it was worth the effort to get the scale right. (Maybe we just had a crappy printer.) If you like low level hacking, you can write raw postscript by hand for simple things. I have the first 3 postscript books from many years ago. I pull them out every few years. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
