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This routine will draw a map on your monitor, and send it to the printer. If
all goes well, that is. I do not have access to any color monitor to test the
color modes. I have written several printer drivers, but I may not have
written one for you particular printer.
The map is drawn with color 1 on color 0. I have been told that color 0 is
always black. I have attempted to allow you to assign whatever <color> to
attribute 1 of EGA and VGA systems. Happy diddling.
Your map will probably be distorted until you <KALIBRAT> your screen.
Maps to the screen are automatically sized to fill the entire screen. Maps to
the printer may be set to any scale. If you try for too large a scale, then it
all will not fit. Future plans include a routine to allow printing of large
maps in sections.
Maps intended for the printer will probably appear distorted when on the
screen. This is because the aspects of the screen and the printer differ.
Check your printer with SQUARE.PLT and try a different <printer> driver if you
get an unsquare square.
Points are not labeled, north arrows & scales drawn, titles in fancy script
added, etc for one very good reason. The logic necessary to make sure that
none of this overwrites the part which the computer can do best is more
complicated than drawing the map. Where I need such additions, I use a 10¢
pencil. There is probably some $1000 commercial software that does this too.
The map is held on screen until a key is pressed.
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