emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) (06/16/90)
I have looked around, it doesn't seem like this particular wheel has been invented yet. Graphics.com in MSDOS 4.01 doesn't do it, neither does User Friendly's PRTSC, though I can get b/w dumps in some combinations. Specifically, I need to dump (mostly EGA) colour screens to a Brother 4018 printer, in colour, preferably in Epson (JQ compatible?) mode. The video board is an Orchid Prodesigner Plus (512K). I intend to do this as a TSR in Turbo C 2.0, I reckon I'm competant enough to handle that, and I've written dot matrix printer drivers before, so no problems there either, but I've never had cause to investigate the mechanics of graphics cards on a PC before, and don't want to go into it *in depth* right now. As a last resort, I might consider using GRAPHICS.COM /COLOR8 and redirecting PRN to a file, (or piping) and filtering it, but that's a bit heavy on the disk, not to mention messy, though it's useful for reprinting, so a suggestion for an existing TSR to do the redirection would also be welcomed. All I really need is a brief explanation of how to access the data, and/or some suitable fragments of source. Best of all would be the source to a similar programme for a different printer - I'd guess that might exist in the PD somewhere. PLEASE reply by e-mail, I really can't cope with the traffic in the .pc groups these days. If there's sufficient interest, I'll post a summary/sources later. Thanks for any and all help, Dave E. (emmo@momcam.co.uk)