silvert@dalcs.UUCP (Bill Silvert) (12/31/87)
It is a long time since a nice set of PrintMaster icons was posted to
this group. They are handy not only for PM use, but with a program by
Sol Guber (shareware) you can convert them to Degas format for use with
Publishing Partner, etc.
I am looking for a tool to manage PM libraries. I would like to be able
to read through a library and copy selected icons to a custom library.
You can do this with PM itself, but the process is cumbersome. Does
anyone have such a beast, or some related code that will help? What is
the format of the library entries anyway?
Are there any more PD libraries lurking out there? A large set was
recently posted to a BBS that I run (almost 300 K!), but I spotted
a couple of proprietary libraries in it and had to pull it off. It is a
real pain trying to figure out what is and isn't PD!
If there is interest, and if I can figure out what is PD in the arc
file, I will post some of the libraries. Any information or any files
and PM utilities that anyone can post or send would be welcome.
By the way, the file includes a program that is supposed to dump an icon
library to the printer. It doesn't seem to work well, but the output
on my SMM804 makes me think it may work on a true Epson. If you want to
try it, send mail to ...!dalcs!biomel (if you send it to this address I
won't send it -- You have to use the correct address!).
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Bill Silvert, Modelling/Statistics Group, Biological Sciences Branch
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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