russ@prism.gatech.EDU (Russell Shackelford) (07/02/89)
It seems that I need a utility that will scan an on-screen TEXT file (std MS DOS environment) and create a GRAPHIC image of the onscreen text. What I need to do is generate graphic images of screen appearance for inclusion in a manual, typeset in Ventura. Of several utilities availble for screen capture (Pub Paintbrush, Dan Bricklin's Demo, Storyboard, and others include screen capture tools), they ALL seem to EITHER (a) capture GRAPHICS images [but I've got TEXT images], OR (b) capture TEXT images in TEXT format [which is NOT what I need], but NONE seem to allow the capture of a TEXT screen to be stored in a graphics file format. I require a graphics image because Ventura will then allow me to scale it to fit the frame which is allocated for it. The screen in TEXT format is THEORETICALLY usable, but would involve LOTS of tedious tagging etc of EACH of many screen captures to get everything to line up correctly. I don't IMAGINE that such a thing would be all that hard to do, but I'm not an programmer. It would seem to me that a utility would simply have to scan the screen pixel by pixel and save what it finds in some std graphics format. Is it more complex than this? Regardless of the complexity, does anybody know of a program that will do what i need? THANKS -- Russell Shackelford School of Information and Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332 russ@prism.gatech.edu (404) 834-4759