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Copyright 1990 by PowerSoft, Inc. and Kam Ware
Portions Copyright Genus Microprogramming, Inc. 1988-1990
All Rights Reserved.
This program may be freely distributed provided NO fee is charged, AND this
documentation accompanies the executable program.
I do not warranty this program in any way, and neither myself nor PowerSoft,
Inc. will be held liable for any losses incurred by its use. (Now the lawyers
are happy.)
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PCX2CHAR is a utility that converts a black and white .PCX formatted image
into a form suitable for output to devices that do not support graphics (e.g.
Line printers, daisy wheel printers, CRT's, etc.).
I developed this program to load a corporate logo for a client into a bar-code
label printer which did not understand PCX bitmaps. The only other useful
function I can see this program performing is converting scanned corporate
logos into a text file that can be printed on a line printer as a cover sheet,
or displayed as a logon screen on a users terminal.
Syntax: PCX2CHAR image{.pcx} {xchars} {ychars}
image.pcx Name of input .PCX file (from scanner, etc.)
xchars Number of characters across desired (optional)
ychars Number of characters down desired (optional)
The output may be redirected with the DOS '>' redirection command
Xchars and ychars may be used to scale the image to a desired size. If neither
xchars or ychars are specified, the output file will have the same dimensions
(in characters) as the input image had (in bits). If just the xchars parameter
is specified, ychars will be set to retain the images original aspect ratio.
Given an original scanned image, called OURLOGO.PCX, with a size of 100 pixels
across by 40 pixels down:
PCX2CHAR OURLOGO > OURLOGO.TXT
Will produce a file named OURLOGO.TXT with 40 lines of 100 characters each.
PCX2CHAR OURLOGO 132 > OURLOGO.TXT
Will produce a file named OURLOGO.TXT with 52 lines of 132 characters each.
PCX2CHAR OURLOGO 132 50 > OURLOGO.TXT
Will produce a file named OURLOGO.TXT with 50 lines of 132 characters each.
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PowerSoft, Inc. is a software development company specializing in DOS based
imaging products. Our soon to be released product, QuickPix (tm), allows
non-programmers to tie images to a variety of data bases, spreadsheets, and
word processors.
Although support is not offered for PCX2CHAR (what do you expect for free?), I
can be contacted on the PowerSoft support BBS at (404) 928-9294.
Kam Ware
September 12, 1990