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From: vgopal@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (venu.p.gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,comp.fonts,comp.text
Subject: Re: Typeface help needed
Summary: CREATE AN EPS OF THE SCREEN AND IMPORT IT INTO WP OR VENTURA
Keywords: PostScript Ventura box-drawing WordPerfect Illustrations
Message-ID: <3816@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 89 22:23:51 GMT
References: <2618@gandalf.UUCP>
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In article <2618@gandalf.UUCP> oheare@gandalf.UUCP (David O'Heare) writes:

!     I am a technical writer, using WordPerfect 5.0 and Ventura
!Publisher 2.0 on a PC-AT compatible, for output to a NEC LC-890
!PostScript printer. I'm having problems importing text files that
!include extended characters into Ventura. Ventura simply drops the
!characters. 
!     What I am trying to do is show illustrations of terminal screens,
!some of which include windows with borders around them. The borders
!are no problem within WordPerfect, or as text files, or whatever.
!However, when I bring the files into Ventura, the line drawing
!characters disappear. Xerox Product Support tells me that that's the
!way it works. 
!     I believe that what I need is a Ventura-and-PostScript compatible
!monospaced typeface that has box drawing characters instead of the
!international characters. Can anybody help me find one? 

When you have postscript, you have everything!  You can use the ability
of Ventura and Word-Perfect to read Encapsulated Postscript format.  Just
grab the screen into an encapsulated postscript file using something like
SCRtoPS, and then import this file into WP or VP, scale it, translate it
to your heart's content and print it out.

SCRtoPS is available from Offe Enterprises, 1163 E. Ogden Avenue, #705-131,
Naperville, IL 60563 (312)-357-6679.  Roughly forty bucks.
Works on an Apple Laserwriter, you get box characters and the rest
of the junk.  Dunno about the NEC-LC890, should work.

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