kc@rna.UUCP (02/19/87)
Does anyone know of a screen dump utility that takes advantage of the high resolution offered by laser printers and 24 pin printers. All of the screen dumpers that I've seen output to a standard IBM graphics printer. Ideally I would like to go from EGA (in text mode) to a Toshiba 321 or an HP laserjet. Kaare Christian If IBM had invented UNIX, what would they have cmcl2!rna!kc called the *sticky bit*.
wtm@neoucom.UUCP (02/21/87)
Both Inset and Pizzaz know myriad screen types: EGA, CGA, Hercules, AT&T DEB, etc. Both support 24 pin (Toshiba, NEC, Epson) and Laser (HP, Apple) printers. Both Inset and Pizzaz intercept <shift - PrtsC> and bring up menus. Both menus have a "bypass" selection that allows the vanilla printscreen function that is resident in ms-dos to be used. I've used both of these on 8-MHz AT compatibles with EGA and the AT&T 6300 with AT&T hi-res display. Both programs perform their jobs quite well. Both programs allow you to freeze a screen image, save to disk, and deal with it later, a handy feature when you don't want to wait around. Both programs allow the image to be clipped and scaled when it is printed. The best features of Pizzaz are the it can do anti-aliasing of the image when you expand it, and there are extensive capabilities for remapping colors into dot patterns. Inset is really much more, it is virtually a poor man's desktop publisher, in that it can paste images into files that are produced on "standard" word procesosrs such as Wordstar or MW-word, etc. All you need do is place the name of the picture file inside square brackets ( [picture.pic], e.g. ) and leave white space in your document to locate the image. The hardest part is getting some wordprocessors not to auto-marginate and leave the white area. As well as intercepting the PrtSc interrupt, Inset also intercepts the printer port interrupt, thus enabling it to detect when you're printing a document that should have an image put in, and it puts it in. Inset allows an on-screen preview of what the finished document is going to look like in wysiwyg type word processors. There is also am image editor in Inset that can be loaded or left out at your option, thus allowing you to do a little hand embellishment before printing. Both packages are quite good, and I'd recommend either one. Inset has some additonal nifty features that can breathe new life into tired old word processors. I think Pizzaz has a suggested price around $50, while Inset has a suggested price of about $99. I'm sure that both can be had for substantially less cash via mail order outlets. For the sensitive among you, I don't work for any of the these software publishers, but have put the programs to use in my office and achieved satisfactory results. --Bill Bill Mayhew Division of Basic Medical Sciences Notheastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine Rootstown, OH 44272 USA phone: 216-325-2511 (wtm@neoucom.UUCP ...!cbatt!noeucom!wtm)
ward@chinet.UUCP (02/28/87)
For PC screen dumps, supporting someting like 150 printers, try Pizazz from Application Techniques, in Pepperrel MA. It is VERY unusual in that it has a graphics mode dump for TEXT MODE screens! Also, it has a "smoothing" option, i.e. so when it blows up characters you don't get "boxes" touching on the diagonals, it "smoothes" them to look more like a diagonal line. Very nice. Great color support. I'm "sure" it would work nicely on the higher res printers.