Dear List: I could not hold from comments to this topic! Over years I have attempted to get high resolution printouts from DOS programs and worked out some ridiculously complicated proceedures.
My pet hate is a print program called SCHPLOT (sic) which comes with a schematic program called SCHEDIT. It will talk to my trusty FX-100 printer fine and I have taken to running it with several passes with different colour ribbons to get a colour A3 output. It takes forever and makes a big noise. Registration surprisingly is the least of the problems. Schplot crashes easily with better printers. Exporting out of SCHEDIT to a plotter file is another approach. Then you can use various programs to convert the .PLT file into a raster format like PCX. Finally printing for me out of GWSDOS has always been horrible and I am afraid I run up Win 3.1 for its drivers. The original justification for the adoption of Windows was explained to me as an overdue way of unifying drivers ..... Another way of getting high resolution output from old DOS programs is to find a SVGA driver for them and then just screen capture with a program like "Screenthief" - a nice little DOS TSR. With big diagrams (like the schematics on my web page) I had to glue the screen grabs together with a program that will look at a big page and allow 800 x 600 images to be inched together at the corners. I use CANVAS again in win 3.1. Anyone know of a DOS program that will do this? Thereafter they can be saved as .JPG or .GIF. Unfortunately I found that versions of Arachne vary in their ability to display big images and truncation happens at about 1800 pixels. .PS files are also good in that some of the DOS graphics programs will export to Postscript, and as already mentioned, GS 510 in DOS will convert them. The trouble is that you only get two shades of black, rather than the colour from a screen grab. In circuit diagrams the colour is great for overlays. Kali PS I got Netscape running in Monkeylinux and gave up on Arachne for linux :-( On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 20:29:58 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:30:09 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 19:21:30 +0100, Mike Millen wrote: >>> RC>This is how I just printed a web page from A171dev on my >>> RC>HP600 Deskjet. >>> RC>Pressed " * " to make the page full screen. >>> RC>Pressed Ctrl+P to make a bitmap (BMP) full page shot. >>> RC>Saved PAGE.BMP. >>> RC>I used PictureView to convert to a .JPG. >>> RC>I used Graphic Workshop for DOS to print the PAGE.JPG (it >>> RC>couldn't display the .BMP, hence my conversion to .JPG). >>> I use PRINTGF which prints bmp, jpg, dcx, etc. > <snip> > <snip> >> An excellent choice, Mike. >> And if you'll notice these 2 lines in the copy of mime.cfg included >> with the v1.71 package..... >> file/printbmp.dgi |[100]g:\\graphics\\printgfd\\printgfd.exe _4prt.bmp /x >> file/printjpg.dgi |[100]g:\\graphics\\printgfd\\printgfd.exe _4prt.jpg /x >> Just change it to match your directory structure. :)) > Hi, I did it about the same... but use PictureView for printing as well. > However I did not know the trick with the * asterix > After _4prt.bmp is written... > press Alt E to leave Arachne > press PV to start PV.BAT to go to PictureView > do converting, printimg etc with PV > Esc to leave PV .... in the PV.BAT there is "exit" to return to ARACHNE > I had to activate "virtual screen = 2000" in arachne.cfg > ^P will not run without virtual screen etc http://www.nimnet.asn.au/~kali/
