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- From: hestermeyer@ida.ing.tu-bs.de (Andreas Hestermeyer)
- Subject: Re: PC fonts in Word for Windows
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.180641.26344@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
- Sender: postnntp@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Mr. Nntp Inews Entry)
- Organization: Inst. f. DV-Anlagen, TU Braunschweig, Germany
- References: <C0yqo8.83E@well.sf.ca.us> <shenoy.727242718@pv0260.vincent.iastate.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:06:41 GMT
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- In article <shenoy.727242718@pv0260.vincent.iastate.edu> shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy) writes:
- >In <C0yqo8.83E@well.sf.ca.us> scrivner@well.sf.ca.us (David DelGreco) writes:
- >
- >
- >>This group is putting together a User Spec for a DOS product, and they
- >>have decided to use Word for Windows to document it. Good choice, in
- >>general, I think.
- >
- >>The problem they are running into is how to draw/capture/edit DOS
- >>screens, and then print those screens with WfW. The DOS screens are, of
- >>course, not bitmaps, but ASCII screens created with the IBM linedraw
- >>character set.
- >
- >>The built-in fonts for a PostScript printer don't support the linedraw
- >>characters, and they feel they are in a quandry (and don't want to use
- >>Word for DOS just because of this).
- >
- >>Does anyone know if it's possible to get WfW to support the linedraw
- >>characters? Should I look at Adobe Type Manager?
- >
-
- You could also get use a window captureing program (like SNAGIT on CICA)
- which copies a bitmap of a window you click on into the clipboard. You could
- then paste the bitmap into you document.
- Regards,
- Andreas H.
-