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DP-02: DTP Utilities and DTP Programs
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#2122 DTP Converters Small Programs Disk
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Art2WP 1.7
Hinkle, William J.
$5
converts PFS:First Publisher clip art files to other formats, including WPG,
TIF, BIT, RLE, IMG, and GIF. It also has the TIFF compression tag to satisfy
Optiks 2.11 and reversed video on GIFs, also added PCX output.
ArtCon 1.4
Onda, Robert
$?
is a clip-art converter for: Print Shop, PrintMaster, NewsMaster (*) and PFS:
First Publisher. The program does fast, easy clip-art conversions between
Print Shop and PrintMaster Libraries, and converts either Print Shop or
Printmaster Libraries to the PFS: First Publisher format.
Bit2Gray 2.1 (BIT2GRY)
Uechi, Brian K.
$15
converts black and white dithered images to gray scale. It reads black and
white PCX files of any size and writes 16 color/gray scale or 256 color/gray
scale PCX files. The 16 gray scale files are best loaded into PC Paintbrush
configured for VGA 640x480x16 colors/gray scale. The 256 color/gray scale
files are best loaded into PC Paintbrush configured for VGA 320x200x256. Scans
may be up to 8192 pixels wide and any length.
Grey 1.0
Philips, Curtis
$?
is a utility to convert Publishers Paintbrush (or Paintbrush Plus) 8x8
dithered halftone PCX or PCC files to 63-grey-level PCX or PCC file formats,
using the 256-color (greyscale) ZSoft pallette.
PCX2PCL 1.3
TaxWare ASP
$30
converts PCX graphics to Hewlett Packard PCL format. A download utility is
included for sending macros to the printer; instructions are given for accessing
the macros from within most major software applications.
TGA2TIF 1.10
Hamilton, Mark
$0
converts targa (TGA) files to Tiff (TIF) files. The Tiff file can be read by
popular DeskTop Publishing packages like PageMaker.
TGIF
Lark, James
$10
converts color GIF files (from CompuServe) to black and white via a halftone
process that approximates the intensities of each color. It also allows you to
double or triple the size of images without losing any smoothness. C source code
is included.
Txt2PCX
Decisions Software
$25
is a 31k TSR that will capture text screens and save them in graphics format
as PCX files. Once saved, PCX files can be imported into virtually all desktop
publishing and graphics programs.
VGA2GIF
Fleisher, Laurie & Bill
$0
will capture a VGA mode 13H graphics screen (320x200x256) and convert it to GIF
format.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2122
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#1995 Other DTP Utilities Small Programs Disk
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BigLabel (BIGLABL)
McBride, Mike and Peg
$0
is a PFS:First Publisher File demonstrating how to make labels with graphics
and text using your dot matrix printer. This grid is set up for 4"x 1-7/16"
labels. Sample labels are included.
Calendar Publisher (CALPUB)
Ahlo, Keoni
$15
allows you to easily create individual month calendars with Corel Draw.
Corel Draw Samples (COREL)
contains two sample output files from Corel Draw. LJet is for the HP
LaserJet; PJet is for the HP PaintJet. (Not on this disk. Ask for #8319.)
ELF
is a .MAC art file for PFS:First Publisher. Print it out, tape it next to
your computer and heed its sage advice regarding backups.
FFALU
Garcia, Jose
$15
is an address label front-end for Softcraft's Fancy Font program that allows
easy text file entry and page formatting to print fancy labels. You can
choose more than one font if you have inserted the proper \fnumber into the
text.
GIFLite
Hu, Tsung
$20
is a command line GIF file compression program. Because GIF files are already so
dense, normal archiving programs like LHA and PKZIP cannot compress them any
significant amount.
GIFLite uses a unique approach to compress GIF files by an average of 15% to 35%
depending on the complexity of the image. It conforms to both GIF87a and GIF89a
standards. All non-image information is preserved in the resulting GIF files.
Unlike regular archives, you do not have to uncompress GIFLite files to use
them.
Greeker
Cambell, George
$0
creates ASCII text files in Latinate nonsense text to any length you specify.
The purpose is for creating dummy files for desktop publishing or word
processor layouts. Files of any length may be created.
OKSCR000
Graham, Keith P.
$0
will capture screens to PCX files. Almost all screen types can be captured,
but the output is in black and white only.
Picem 2.7 (02-94 CD)
Bridges, John
$0
is a quick and easy way to view picture files from many graphics programs as
well as GIF files. It also allows you to adjust the brightness and contrast
in your pictures and save them back to disk.
Post 1.2
Betts, F. C.
$5
allows users to print ASCII files directly to PostScript printers. It is
intended to provide PostScript support for programs that do not have the
necessary drivers.
RealType (REALTYP)
$0
is a patch for Corel Draw's INI file that causes the font names to be displayed
in Corel as the names of the fonts they emulate. For example, what Corel calls
Toronto is really Times.
TiffRead (TIFREA) (08-93 CD)
$0
is a small program that displays TIFF image files.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1995
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MegaClip 2.2 (MCLIP22)
Blueview Software
$20
is a screen clipping utility that supports standard EGA/VGA and SVGA
modes. It works with PCX, BMP, and RIP icon files. (Special order from
the December 1993 CD-ROM: 50K)
AlphaQuote 3.1 [AQ31]
Alphabtyes, Incorporated ASP
$29
#2572 (12-93 CD)
is for budgeting or billing typesetting and desktop publishing projects. It
provides an easy to use menu interface with on-line context sensitive help. It
also features a graphic arts calculator, instant screen preview, report writer
for printed estimates, hourly rates generator for DTP and complete documentation
in a printer-ready format.
Code To Code 4.1 [CTOC41]
Alphabtyes, Incorporated ASP
$29
#2335 (12-93 CD)
is a collection of programs for working with files containing typesetting
codes. Such codes are inserted by DTP programs like Ventura. Code To Code can
strip out all of the codes and optionally re-insert them later, under certain
conditions. It can also split large files into small files with user-
controlled break points. Codes can be automatically translated from
typesetting to DTP or DTP to typesetting in addition to code stripping and
code-free editing.
In our testing, it removed all the Ventura control codes from our PsL News
file so quickly that we didn't realize it had done its work already. Being
able to strip DTP control codes from a file so quickly makes it more
convenient to create plain on-disk documentation files and to clean up a file
for spelling, style and grammar checking programs. The conversion ability
makes it easy to move between DTP and typesetting formats.
Compression/Decompression Utility
LEAD Technologies, Inc.
$49
#4075
will compress or decompress TGA, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PCX, and BIN files up to ratios
of 255:1. It provides options to save VGA palettes and load images into
different resolutions. Images of 2000 pixels wide by 16,000 pixels deep can be
compressed. You can also compress using JFIF and JTIF (supporting JPEG
standards) or LEAD extended ratios with much better image quality than JPEG.
EnVision Publisher 1.54
Software Vision Corporation ASP
$74
#20045 [2 disks] (08-93 CD)
is a full-featured, WYSIWYG desktop publishing program. First let's get the
negatives out of the way so that we can get on with the praise the program
richly deserves.
The manual claims that the program is better than programs costing 10 times more
(ie: $700) and challenges the user to compare. In response to that, we have to
say that EnVision Publisher (EVP) is not remotely close to being in the