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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

3528.0. "Printing Graphics?" by AKOV11::SMITH (Reality, just a visible imagination?) Mon Feb 26 1990 17:44

Has anyone ever seen a utility to print a graphics (IFF/HAM/etc.) picture
WITHOUT having to display it?  It would be nice to be able to just SPOOL
the IFF file to the printer rather that use GRAPHICDUMP, DigiView, DPaint,
etc.

...Ed
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3528.1WJG::GUINEAUMon Feb 26 1990 18:223
That would make a nice handler process - copy a file to device IFF: ...

John
3528.2A reasonable request...NAC::BRANNONvalue addedMon Feb 26 1990 21:3717
    re .0:
    I've been hunting for one too.  The WITHOUT having to display it seems
    to be the key piece.  Take a look at the C source for some of the IFF
    to printer utilities on the fred fish disks.  It looks like to this
    Amiga novice that they use a system call to read the screen to get
    the data in a form the printer driver expects.  A bit of a short cut to
    avoid having to deal with IFF file formats but it could explain why
    they all want the IFF pic displayed.
    
    Now with iff.library available maybe that could change.
    
    re .1:
    I'd settle for something like PRINTGR #? from its own CLI window.
           
    thanks,
    dennis
    
3528.3PRTPIC uploadedLODGE::LENDavid M. LenTue Feb 27 1990 02:133
    I have uploaded a utility that does print iff graphic files without
    displaying them.  I copied it to TAPE::USER2:[UPLOAD]PRTPIC11.ARC.
    This should meet your requirements.
3528.4NAC::BRANNONvalue addedTue Feb 27 1990 15:589
    re .3:
    
    Thanks muchly, the doc file looks like an exact match for what I was 
    looking for - 1.3 printer driver support, wildcards, and doesn't
    display on screen.
    
    thanks,
    dennis
    
3528.5GPrintDECWET::TBAKERTom Baker - DECwest CSSEWed Feb 28 1990 20:543
I think GPrint does what you want. It's on TAPE""::USER2:[AMIGA...] somewhere.

Tom
3528.6PRTPICNAC::BRANNONvalue addedWed Feb 28 1990 21:5513
    re .5:
    Already tried Gprint, not quite what I was looking for, but thanks for
    the pointer.
    
    I tried out PRTPIC last night - it works great!  I had a small cli
    window with it printing out a series of ham pictures each seperated
    by a form feed.  It even uses VMS style wildcarding!
    
    However, after about 10 of them, I started wishing it would also
    optionally print the filename along with the picture...
    
    thanks,
    dennis
3528.7PRTPICAKOV11::SMITHReality, just a visible imagination?Thu Mar 01 1990 23:575
    Great!
    
    Thanks for the upload,  I check it out this weekend.
    
    ...Ed
3528.8Works great on Most PicturesRIPPLE::LUKE_TEFri Mar 02 1990 14:4917
    I tried it out last night and it works great for most things.  I
    do a lot of creation of overheads which I print out on my LJ250
    which is connected.  For the 640x700 screens I create and print
    out at 1280x1400 pixels (for great printer resolution) it works
    best to set up preferences at 1280x1400 pixels and use the default
    print setting of PRTPIC, since specifying pixels within the PRTPIC
    command line turns off the centering function.
    
    I still can't print out the 1280x1600 images I create with Deluxe
    Photolab (using it's virtual screen capability)  Printing out a
    1280x1600 screen pixel for pixel gives unbelievable resolution on
    the LJ250.  PRTPIC scrambles these pictures when it prints them.
    I guess I still have to load them up into memory and use Photolab
    to print them out.  I could have been such a timesaver, since now
    I can only create the images, or print them, but not both at the
    same time.