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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Looking for prog to display big SHR pics
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Date: 7 Mar 91 14:32:16 GMT
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In article <559@generic.UUCP> taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:
>    There's a utility called BigPic which can combine two full-page APF
>graphics into one large 640x400 picture.  It saves it in its own format
>however, and it only displays them.  I haven't taken a good look at it yet,
>but it looks really rough around the edges.

Yeah, I took a look at it, and it only lets you make pictures
320x(200-800) or (320-1280)x200. Scrolling is automatic (you can't
control where you want to look) and one-way only.

I've found that SHR View 3.1 and Utilityworks GS will work, but I
really don't like either that much (I like my own :-) SHR View is a
slideshow program, so it's hard to pick which file you want to view,
and UWGS doesn't have a full screen mode (at least not in the version
I have... the later versions might though), so there's an annoying
menu bar and scroll boxes. Also, it crashes into the monitor when you
try to print a big picture :-(

>    I would like not only a utility that will create/view/store large APF
>graphics, I want one that can use standard GS drivers to PRINT the pic.  Using
>the LaserWriter driver, I can set reduction to 50% and get a very nice
>greyscale rendition of a 640x480 GIF.

I've got a shell program that will take $C1 pics and stick them
together to make a big APF picture. You can use GIF3200 to convert
320x200 chunks of the picture and then stick them together... It would
be nice to have a program to print though. I haven't read much about
the Print Manager, so I was wondering if anyone knew what it thinks
about pictures > 64K?

>Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be
>U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
>Scarberia, ON       |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         |  is method in 't."

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