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GRAPHICS - Supplements To The Manual |
The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: A graphic image appears in one solid color in the Graphics Editor. The customer has an EGA graphics card and a color monitor and can see the graphic on a monochrome monitor with a Hercules Graphics card and also on a color monitor with a VGA graphics card. The graphics appeared in the solid color with a Hercules InColor card and a color monitor, even when the black and white option was chosen. Solutions: The bitmap in question has a custom color map that maps all 16-color numbers to one of two actual colors. Due to the way WPCorp changed things in WP 5.1 for displaying colors and also protecting the foreground and background colors from remapping, some cards may display this as all one color in the Graphics Editor. However, View Document and printing still work fine. The bold letters in the Graphics Editor and View Document screens disappear because WP doesn't protect those colors from remapping. Page Number: 268-274 Problem: When a customer retrieves a document into WP 5.1 (created with WP 5.0 dated 07/11/88), the graphic is no longer scaled properly. The graphic would scale properly in every version of WP 5.0 except 04/29/89 and 06/12/89. Answer: According to the values in the box function, WP 5.1 (and WP 5.0 date after 01/03/89) are displaying the bitmap correctly. Since the 01/03/89 was not able to rotate bitmaps and handled the scaling differently, this accounts for the difference (it would ignore the rotation value in the box function, and possibly the crop values as well). Page Number: 274-281 Problem: WP 5.1 and the HP LaserJet Series II do not print the PCX graphics with the same shade intensity as they printed them in WP 5.0. The problem also occurs with the current WP 5.0. Answer: Versions of WP 5.0 from 07/11/88 and WP 5.1 include several changes made to the way bitmap shades are printed. This has improved the way that WP works with a variety of printers. One of the things that WP 5.1 has done is to move from a 4x4 dot pattern to an 8x8 pattern. This gives greater flexibility with dot gain and better dot distribution with the majority of bitmaps. However, it decreases the pattern resolution somewhat, causing the bitmap in this instance to look lighter. In short, WP 5.1 is more correct at reproducing the colors as pattern shades of gray than WP 5.0. Page Number: 287 Problem: WP allows outrageous values for border space when the program should ignore them. For example, the user can set the outside border space to 5" both left and right. This is bad because the customer's page is only 8.5" wide and 5"+ 5" = 10". Answer: What if you then change to a landscape 8.5" x 14" form so outside spacing of 5" makes sense? As long as it doesn't hurt, WP should allow the user to enter whatever he/she wants. Usually the philosophy of WPCorp is to give flexibility wherever possible. This is a case where the WP "judged" border spacing may limit some customers. |
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