[softwarelist] Re: Artworks printing from elliptical frame

In article <2f82fdc54e.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin Wuerthner
<public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>      In message <4ec5989fb3rkp@xxxxxxxxx> Richard Partridge
>           <rkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I just found this out the hard way:
> > 
> > Take an Artworks file which includes an 8bpp colour sprite, and
> > drag it into an Ovation Pro frame. [...] Convert the frame to
> > elliptical shape  [...]
> > Print with a dot-matrix driver
> > 
> > The colours are not quite what was intended!
> > 
> > Can anyone else reproduce this?

> Yes. .......

> ...........

> .......AWRender still has the old ArtWorks 1.7 sprite printing code,
> which is pretty poor and which was used by ArtWorks until version
> 2.3. I have updated it significantly for ArtWorks 2.4, but this
> new code has not found its way into AWRender yet. I think the
> above problem will go away when I have ported that code across.

> > If so, is it a problem with Ovation Pro 2.77, Artworks 2.63 or
> > AWRender 2.05?

> It really is a limitation in AWRender.

Many thanks to Martin and David. I hadn't expected to kick off such
an interesting discussion.

Regards,

Richard Partridge.

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Richard Partridge
rkp@xxxxxxxxx

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