nckary@ndsuvax.UUCP (Dan Kary) (07/08/85)
Thank you to all the people who responded to my request for info
on making transparencies. Unfortunately none of the respondents have
used Digital Research GEM software, which looks most interesting to me.
The AD copy looks great but none of the local stores have it (sigh).
Responses follow.
Dan Kary
{ihnp4 | mgnetp}!dicomed!ndsuvax!nckary
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From dicomed!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuts!hhm Thu Jul 4 00:25:58 1985
Overhead Express does a good job on text.
I have not seen anything really adequate for
drawings.
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From dicomed!ihnp4!seismo!utah-cs!schimpf Fri Jul 5 00:33:02 1985
Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept
On the MAC you can black and white transparencies quite
easily with MACPAINT or better yet MACDRAW. I use these then copy
the printed results in a Xerox onto clear plastic that Xerox sells
for this purpose. These are not of ultimate quality as the copy on
the the plastic is not always the best but they are usually clear
and the MAC is a very good tool for doing drawings.
--jim schimpf
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From dicomed!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!pegasus!lzwi!psc Fri Jul 5 00:33:10 1985
We bought a Mac for transparencies and such pages in reports (after I
borrowed a friend's a couple of times, and came up with some pretty
pictures). We use MacPaint (even for transparencies with nothing but
words; the casual users just want to know one program). If you're
doing flowcharts, you might want MacDraw.
As to colors: I've always wanted to do this on our Mac:
1) Make a normal picture (black shapes on white background)
2) Print a negative (white shapes on a black background)
3) Make a transparancy of the negative
4) Use colored transparency pens to color in the white shapes
Colored words and shapes on a black background look really spiffy
Regards,
a hacker @ a PClonemaker!
-Paul S. R. Chisholm The above opinions are my own,
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From dicomed!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuts!dylee Fri Jul 5 00:33:39 1985
I have been using Signmaster. Signmaster does a decent
job with pure text and tables but cannot draw lines.
What I don't like is that one does not compose the transparency
on the screen but enter them as lines of text with some format
control. What I like is that it is easy to use and has a good
selection of fonts and sizes. It can also do transparency in
horizontal format which I have not been able to find in
other packages.
For transparency with flow charts, schematics, I usually use
a CAD schematic capture system.
I also have access to OVERHEAD EXPRESS but have not tried it
out yet.
It would be nice if you would send me some feedback on GEM.
Dave Lee
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From dicomed!ihnp4!amdahl!sjl Fri Jul 5 00:33:49 1985
The Macintosh running MacDraw does an excellent job of producing the sort of
foils you described.
Steve Langdon ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun,nsc}!amdahl!sjl (408)746-6970
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From: dicomed!desoto!osu-eddie!apr!thompson (The Software Warrior)
Organization: Advanced Programming Resources, Inc.
We have been doing our transparencies on our HP laser printer. While
this does not give us graphics, it does a very nice job for text. I have
also been told that you can use the laser writer (for the apple) to do
the same thing we do. We just shove in transpanrency paper for our
photocopier and presto out comes the tansparency.
Ed Thompson
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From: Jim Gillogly <dicomed!ihnp4!decvax!randvax!jim>
Organization: Banzai Institute
We're getting the HP 6-pen plotter and Chartmaster and Textmaster software.
It's not installed yet, but the demos looked good at Businessland.
--
Jim Gillogly
{decvax, vortex}!randvax!jim
jim@rand-unix.arpa
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