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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How can I extract text from a PICT?
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.070701.14490@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 91 07:07:01 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.141300.5216@am.dsir.govt.nz>
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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There is a simple way to extract text from a PICT.  Do you have access
to a modem and a remote computer?  Try printing your PICT to the
imagewriter in "DRAFT" mode, to the modem port, "cat"ting it to a file
on the remote machine (in UNIXspeak).  The printer driver will bypass
all the lines in the PICTure.  Then download the file from the remote
machine.

There is also a printer driver called "Daisy" that prints to a daisy
wheel printer; if the imagewriter idea doesn't work, consider using
daisy.  I have used daisy in this way before, so I know it works.
However, sometimes "Daisy" will overstrikes characters if the font is
too small and the characters are too close together, losing some
information from your PICT.

Don Gillies	     |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gillies@cs.uiuc.edu  |  Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL

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