While I was working on my cataloging program I ran across something
ratherinteresting. Thumbnail PICTS print really ssssllllloooowwww. I'm
making a contact sheet with about 80 picts and printing to a Laserwriter,
oh about 2 hours. To my Epson stylus, much better. Only 40 minutes per page
(in low res). Spooling all the PICTs takes about a minute.

So, and some one please correct my logic if its wrong, I figure because the
picts contain so many QD commands (10,000 line segments in some of them),
the printer driver is choking on these. Or the printer is. Hence my
deduction is, take the PICT handle, draw it into a GWORLD, wave a magic
wand twice while uttering the magic word, and then draw the new "flattened"
PICT from the GWORLD to the printer.

Anyone have a "magic wand" function I could use to do this? I can create
the GWORLD, get the PICT into it, and then, ah, my wand breaks. I tried
copybits to the printer from the GWORLD, nice effect. Bad wand again.

I also notice that my magic words have been going steadily downhill...


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