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From: kortink@.cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: New apps
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.234118.25590@cs.utwente.nl>
Date: 29 Apr 91 23:41:18 GMT
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Ever had a program that draws something wildly interesting ? Ever
wished that you could convert it to a draw-file ?

A friend of mine, Pieter Gosselink (he made the icons for Translator
and Creator you like so much), finished the first version of an
application that does just that. Not just the easy bits, the works !

!VDUobject accepts a file containing a sequence of VDU commands, and
converts it to a draw file. When loaded into Draw, the original objects
drawn by the VDU sequence are recreated, and can thereafter be manipulated
at will. Needless to say, printing the image will result in a hard-copy
with a much larger resolution. Circles will look like circles, not like
some circle-like structure of 'bricks'.

A cut-down version of !VDUobject was posted to the comp.binaries.acorn
moderator and to the Newcastle filesever. The full version is available
for a song (don't take this too literally), so he can make a tiny bit of
money out of it, which is fully and truly deserved.

John Kortink

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