If it's working at 72 dpi, leave it that way for now Improved printing will be great, but we can start testing out the rest of the program (My $0.02 CDN - $0.01 USD) AJBIBB@xxxxxxx wrote: > >I managed to get a drawing to plot and even (surprisingly) figured out how to >print to a defined scale. However, as is typical with computers I ran into >an unexpected problem and I need opinions on how to proceed. >Plotting using QT (the only way I am about to tackle this problem) version >2.3 forces the postscript output to be a 72 dpi. There is no way to adjust >this value. In researching the problem I discovered that one of the major >enhancements of QT3 is the ability to map output to the real dpi values for >your printer. This will obviously provide much better print quality (say 600 >dpi compared to 72 dpi). >At 72 dpi the output looks like it was made with a 9pin dot matrix printer - >readable but not presentation quality. The question I have for anyone using >my viewer program: could you live with 72 dpi printing in the next version >and not have to be bothered upgrading your QT libraries, or would you rather >upgrade and have the better quality print? Eventually I'll be going to QT3 >so it is just a question of sooner or later? >By the way, printing to a file with QT is trivial (at 72 dpi). Once I get >this portion wrapped up not only will you be able to print to paper, but you >will also be able to save the file in Postscript format for easy viewing and >converting. I know - it sounds too easy (which is what I thought when it was >first mentioned on this mailing list) but it really works that way. >Andy ----- Brian Johnson, P. Eng. Johnson Engineering Consultants www.jecinc.on.ca