chad@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (D. Chadwick Gibbons) (08/23/89)
Has anyone ever encountered a utility which will dump a text screen to a graphics printer in graphics mode? I just finished developing one which traps specifed hot keys and then dumps the screen (text only) in a manner to exactly reproduce it on a printer, i.e. reverse, underline, highlight, borders, etc. will all be printed. It's quiet nice for manuals. I was thinking of delivering to the netland if the intrest was there and once cbip wakes up once again--but before I do I'd like to know if such an animal already exists....hmm, if I'm inventive, maybe I could add a HPLaserJet mode, but I'd have to figure out how to do graphics on that tank...hmmhmm -- D. Chadwick Gibbons (chad@csd4.csd.uwm.edu)
malpass@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (Don Malpass) (08/23/89)
In article <3957@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> chad@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (D. Chadwick Gibbons) writes: > > Has anyone ever encountered a utility which will dump a text screen to >a graphics printer in graphics mode? .... >....I'd like to know if such an animal already exists.... I have such an animal for the HZ-100 which does graphic screen dumps (not just text in graphics mode) to a C-Itoh (or equiv) printer, and from time to time it has proven to be very useful. A PC equivalent would be welcome, but it is important to structure it in such a way that it can run with MANY printer drivers, and that many of them be provided with it. Also, have you poked around in simtel's <msdos.printer> directory? I think similar things exist there. -- Don Malpass [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa], [malpass@gandalf.ll.mit.edu] Overheard at the North/South train platform in the Congo: "Pardon me boy. Is this the Chad-Angola Choo-Choo?" 8/89
kwong@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Ken Wong) (10/12/89)
Does anyone know of a TSR that will print out the attributes (as well as
the characters) of a Print Screen. I mean that it will print out Bold, and
Underline atributes of the characters on the screen. Could you please
tell me where I can find it (anonymous FTP) or better yet e-mail it to
me. Thanks in advance
Ken Wong
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BITNET: kwong@uvunix.bitneteinari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) (10/14/89)
In article <808@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> kwong@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Ken Wong) writes: > >Does anyone know of a TSR that will print out the attributes (as well as >the characters) of a Print Screen. I mean that it will print out Bold, and >Underline atributes of the characters on the screen. Could you please If someone has got a TSR that wil print the BLINKING attributes, please send a copy to me :-) (I could not resist) -- To quote Alfred E. Neuman: "What! Me worry????" |||| Pobody is Nerfect !!! Internet: einari@rhi.hi.is UUCP: ..!mcvax!hafro!rhi!einari
smvorkoetter@watmum.waterloo.edu (Stefan M. Vorkoetter) (10/17/89)
In article <1202@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes: >In article <808@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> kwong@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Ken Wong) writes: >> >>Does anyone know of a TSR that will print out the attributes (as well as >>the characters) of a Print Screen. I mean that it will print out Bold, and >>Underline atributes of the characters on the screen. Could you please > >If someone has got a TSR that wil print the BLINKING attributes, please send >a copy to me :-) > I have written a TSR that tries very hard to print colour attributes. It does not print underlining, since that does not exist on a colour display. What it does do is compute the relative intensity between foreground and background colours for each character, and then prints the character using an appropriate attribute. For example, WHITE on BLACK prints out bold, BLUE on BLACK prints out normal, WHITE on GRAY prints out normal, and BLACK on GRAY prints out in reversed video. The program does this using EPSON LQ2500 compatible graphics. It is not very sophisticated, but it works. You use it by pressing CTRL-ALT-LEFTSHIFT, and then typing two digits to tell the printer how many lines to skip before printing. I use this to print screen images in predetermined places on already laser printed pages of manuals I write. If enough people are interested, I will clean it up a bit, and post it (via the moderator) to comp.binaries.ibm.pc. Stefan Vorkoetter (smvorkoetter@wmsical.waterloo.edu)