Re: Faxing from Xy/Dos

["R Tennenbaum" rtenn@xxxxxxxx]

Are you using image-mode printing to print from the HP driver?

I believe the fax imaging process "shrinks" pages on an order of ten
percent. Generally speaking you'll benefit if you use a larger font
in any case -- I use 14 where I used to use 12, 12 for 10, etc.

Having said that, while I use only Xywrite to write and fax
manuscripts, at this point I write virtually all my correspondence in
Describe. The stationary manager is more than serviceable, and it
can handle any Bitstream font I feed it (at any size) in very slick
fashion. Additionally, it's quite stable -- the only shortcomings
are that a few aspects of the interface are quirky, it seems to
access video drivers in an odd fashion, and doesn't handle some DTP
functions that it probably should.


On Tue, 28 Jan 97 07:15:19, jbesser@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>>12, it ought to look pretty nice. Do DeScribe faxes look better in the
>>same point size?
>
>Yes. A little experimentation last night demonstrated that DeScribe faxes,
>especially in Helvetica and Swiss, were much cleaner, with better
>resolution, than those produced with Xy/Dos. With the latter, Dutch
>was, as I think you suggested, the best font. But the letters still
>seemed somewhat broken up.