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Turing printing fuzzy images
Author:  Nathan4102 [ Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Turing printing fuzzy images
I'm trying to print something straight off Turing, but it turns out looking awful. The image has roughly 1 inch margins on the left, top, and right, and then 2 or 3 inches on the bottom. Also, the text that's printed is very fuzzy. The text is drawn via various GUI functions and Font.Draw, and my screen size is 600 x 770,which is almost 1:1 to 8.5 x 11. Any ways I can fix this?
Thanks!
Nathan

EDIT: Also is there a way to convert a boolean to a string, and vice versa? I'm having a bit of trouble with that at the moment... :p
Author:  DemonWasp [ Tue Oct 01, 2013 7:13 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:Turing printing fuzzy images
The margins are probably beyond your help, because that's probably built into Turing. The fuzziness is almost certainly because you're printing at ~ 70 dots-per-inch (dpi). Clear-looking printing requires around 300 dpi and photo-quality starts around 600 dpi (very roughly).

Turing is definitely NOT the tool to use for publishing.
Author:  Nathan4102 [ Tue Oct 01, 2013 7:27 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:Turing printing fuzzy images
:/ I'll have to play around with this and try to figure something out then. Thanks

Also any idea about my Editted question? Something like:

Turing:

var x : boolean := false
var y : string

y := "This is " + x %Gives error
Author:  tiedye1 [ Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Turing printing fuzzy images
In response to your second question, there is no method defined in truing to convert stings to booleans and vise versa. The easiest way would defiantly be a simple if else statement.

However, just because, there is technically a way to convert a boolean to a integer using type cheats. This essentially reinterprets the raw bits that make up a value. It it used in this fashion:

Turing:

var x : boolean := false
var y : int := 0

cheat (boolean, y) := x

put y


Note that the raw boolean value (one bit) is imposed on the existing value so a default value of 0 is required for y.

Also note that doing it this way is completely pointless and I don't recommend it. Just posting to expand your Turing knowledge Smile
Author:  DemonWasp [ Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:35 am ]
Post subject:  RE:Turing printing fuzzy images
Or...

Turing:

fcn boolstr ( boolean b ) : string
    if b then
        result "true"
    else
        result "false"
    end if
end boolstr

%...

var y : string := "This is " + boolstr(x)


That follows a similar format to the intstr() function that comes with Turing.

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