tos@psc90.UUCP (Tom Schlesinger) (01/28/89)
Question: What kind of hand scanner and (reasonably priced!) graphics software would enable me to do the following: scan and input simple designs, such as logos, and combine them with ordinary text in my usual word processor? The w/p in question is NotaBene, and it makes it very easy to include graphics in a text file as long as the graphics is "printer ready." I don't have a scanner, et, but have PFS First Publisher. It is very easy to take the boilerplate graphics images from First Publisher and include them in a NotaBene file. But here is the rub: the First Publisher graphics ALWAYS include an extra form feed. Thus the inclusion in a file always ends up with a huge amount of white space. I've tried to find the form fee d by trial and error, but couldn't. Has anyone out there used a specific graphics package either with graphics from and package, or better yet with a specific hand scanner and done this simple maneuver without ending up with scads of white space between the logo and the text? Please don't suggest using the "text" capability provided by the graphics package: its quality is terrible. The hardware in question is an IBM PS2/30-286, which comes with VGA as standard equipment; I use an IBM 8513 high resolution color monitor and and Logitech Mouse. Any ideas, suggestions, tips, leads? I'll very much appreciate any help at all.