klong@wilkins.bcm.tmc.edu (Kevin Long) (03/17/90)
After spending a couple of hours on the phone with Aldus' technical support folks, I'm coming to the net to see if anyone has found a solution to a seemingly simple problem: dumping Aldus Persuasion 2.0 slides to PICT files. Oh, sure the software supports it with the Export command, but the results are *terrible*. I'm using an 8-bit color all-Apple system, and have a batch of slides whose colors have been tweaked to work well with the Mass Microsystems ColorSpace IIi board. That is, since the ColorSpace II board spits out NTSC video, then according to Mass Micro's advice, I've changed white text on a black background to very light grey text on a dark grey background, etc. My slide also has graduated fills: a line that goes from green to blue across the middle of the slide, and a background that goes from light green at the top to dark green at the bottom. When I export to a PICT file or to a scrapbook, the results look terrible with every color-PICT-capable program I've got, including * the giffer * pixel paint * persuasion itself (import it back in, and it looks bad) * supercard * dispPICT XCMD * a Dartmouth PICT-displaying XCMD Unfortunately, Persuasion disables all FKEYs when it's putting on a slide show, so I can't use any of the scree-dumping FKEYs to capture the images either. When the slides aren't in slide-show format, Persuasion shows everything slightly reduced, which makes the text look really bad, so I can't snap that. The Persuasion tech support folks are real nice, and they tried a lot of stuff. But the fact is that Persuasion can't really export its slides in PICT format exactly the way they can show them to you on the screen while you're running Persuasion. I really need to export these slides so I can import them into MacroMind's Director Interactive to use with a videodisc and videotape machine, or to import into HyperCard for similar use. Anyone know a way to do this? Reply to me, I'll post. Kevin Long Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX (713) 798-6116 klong@bcm.tmc.edu