[softwarelist] Re: Artworks printing from elliptical frame
- From: Richard Partridge <rkp@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:50:43 +0000 (GMT)
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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