ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) (03/18/91)
Hey guys, believe it or not, you can actually rotate raster images in WordPerfect 5.1! Yes, by 5 degrees, 10 degrees, whatever, something you cannot do in 5.0. I moved to 5.1 only because it allow use of 80x50 text editing screen. Now, any more special features you 5.1'ers out there know of?
lair@ellis.uchicago.edu (Scott A. Laird) (03/18/91)
In article <1991Mar17.222435.24418@d.cs.okstate.edu> ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes: >Hey guys, believe it or not, you can actually rotate raster images >in WordPerfect 5.1! Yes, by 5 degrees, 10 degrees, whatever, something >you cannot do in 5.0. I moved to 5.1 only because it allow use of >80x50 text editing screen. > >Now, any more special features you 5.1'ers out there know of? Yep. Try this: 1) Make a backup copy of your printer's .ALL file. 2) Run the printer editor, PTR.EXE. 3) Copy the definition for your printer, and call it something like "Epson LQ-850+." (But only if it was an LQ-850 in the first place...) 4) Edit each of the font definitions so the character set only contains one character, such as [12,255], or any other character that you never use. This will cause WP to use its own grahpics character set for all characters. 5) Now return to the main menu, and select, I think, Miscellaneous Options, or something similar, and select the option (I think) Scalable fonts. It's been a while, and I don't remember the exact name, but its close to that. 6) Now save and quit PTR, and run WP. Select the new printer you created, and you _should_ be able to print text any size you want, with WP doing the scaling on the fly. The ability of WP to do this has increased with time, with the early releases of 5.1 crashing with a full page, or anything over about 100pts, and the later versions giving me almost 200 or so. You should now have a nice, cheap (Well, WP isn't cheap, but you already have that, so it doesn't count) way to print scalable fonts on your printer. If you have a Postscript printer, it obviously doesn't matter, but this method works on any printer that WP can print grpahics on. There are a few problems with this, since small sizes (below 18 points) don't come out well, this isn't good god for text, but you can use WP to make signs and so on that look far better than our old friend (or is it enemy?) The Print Shop. Getting this to work can take some time, and there are a few bugs in the system, since the graphics character abilities in WP come from the need to do print preview as much as anything, and aren't really designed to make huge printer fonts, but it works, if you're careful. There are only three fonts that WP can do this with, internally. There is a Times Roman, a Helvetica, and a Courier, with obliques for Helvetica and Courier, and a real italic on Times. If you have any questions, I might be able to answer them, but email debugging just isn't my thing... If this works for you, feel free to send me some mail, just so I know that someone's tried it and it works. Also, if you've seen this method printed anywhere before, tell me. I haven't seen it in the manual, but It's big enough that I could have missed it. Still, that doesn't seem like WP's style. Good luck! -- Scott A. Laird | Any semblance of the above to anything is purely lair@midway.uchicago.edu | coincidental, as it was the result of an infinite The University of Chicago | number of monkeys sneaking in to use my computer | for the afternoon.
userDHAL@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (David Halliwell) (03/21/91)
In article <1991Mar17.222435.24418@d.cs.okstate.edu>, ong@d.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG) writes: >Hey guys, believe it or not, you can actually rotate raster images >in WordPerfect 5.1! Yes, by 5 degrees, 10 degrees, whatever, something >you cannot do in 5.0. I moved to 5.1 only because it allow use of >80x50 text editing screen. > >Now, any more special features you 5.1'ers out there know of? I can think of a long list, but my favorites are: - equation formatting - graphics output of the 1500 characters added in 5.0 (but which wouldn't print out if your printer didn't have them in its own fonts; now WP says "hell, I'll just do a graphic that LOOKS like the character) - tables: you can actually import portions of Lotus 123 or Quattro Pro directly into tables in WP. No need to go through an intermediate PRN file. I bought WP 5.1 for the first two! Dave Halliwell P.S. The raster output also seems to scale well when you resize the graphs: if you import a scanned image at, say, 300dpi, you can rescale it and still get good output. No need to match scan size with output size (at least in my limited experience).