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- From: shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy)
- Subject: Re: PC fonts in Word for Windows
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- References: <C0yqo8.83E@well.sf.ca.us> <shenoy.727242718@pv0260.vincent.iastate.edu> <1993Jan22.180641.26344@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:29:36 GMT
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- In <1993Jan22.180641.26344@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> hestermeyer@ida.ing.tu-bs.de (Andreas Hestermeyer) writes:
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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.
-
- You don't need a window capturing program. Just use alt-enter to go from
- full screen dos to a window. Then use mark and copy to copy to the
- clipboard. Run clipbrd.exe to see what you have copied. From the DISPLAY
- menu choose OEM Text and then paste to your word processor.
- This is the gist of the article by Brian Livingston which I mentioned
- earlier. It appeared in the Jan 11 issue of INFOWORLD.
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