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From: anderson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Peter Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: geoWrite to geoPaint ??
Summary: Certainly.
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Date: 24 Oct 89 13:21:33 GMT
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Reply-To: anderson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Peter Anderson)
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Scott asks:
 
 Is there a program for the C64 that can convert a single page
 of geoWrite file to a geoPaint file?
  
  
And - of course - the answer is yes... but I won't be posting it to
the net - it is from Berkeley, and is available in the Geos 2.0 
package (upgrade is still only $29.95, I believe).

Besides the proprietary reasons for not posting commercial software to the 
net, there is a practical consideration - this program has to be 'installed'
according to the print driver you regularly use.  The directions are not
hard to follow - but setting it up IS non-trivial.  This  program is handy, 
for example if you use a 60 DPI printer like I do, since the text only
show up in the portion of the GeoPaint image that will show on the paper.

There are actually two 'special' print drivers (and they don't really have
anything to do with GeoWrite, they replace ANY use of a printer driver
with a P.D. that creates a paint image).  1) Print Pages, that creates 
multiple pages (called 'page 1', 'page 2', etc...) for multiple page
printing;  and 2) Print Overlay, which allows you to overlay two pages
on the same graphic (I have seen different examples of effects this allows;
a simple example is two column flow for a newsletter).

Scott's suggestion is exactly what I have done with this - produce graphic
images from text files -> move them to MacPaint format -> kermit them into 
work -> print them for a presentation on a Laser Printer!  

	Joel.
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