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From: desmond@cod.NOSC.MIL (J. Desmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Help with screen capture
Message-ID: <1922@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 29 May 90 16:43:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: cod.1922
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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X-Local-Date: 29 May 90 09:43:14 PDT

I am writing a manual for a piece of software I developed and
would like to extract screen images to use in the manual.  Does
anyone know of a utility that can capture a TEXT screen with
foreground and backround color information and output a disk file
in a common GRAPHICS format so that WordPerfect 5.1 can import
it?  I already tried using a WP text box but font sizes severely
limit the sizes of the box.  I also tried using the WP grab
utility operating under BASIC displaying the captured text in
screen mode 9 (graphic).  That came pretty close and might be a
useful trick for somebody out there (I'll send the code to
interested parties) but since the text had to be previously
captured by a common text-based utility (PRN2FILE), the color
information was already lost.  Any ideas?
-John Desmond
desmond@nosc.mil