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Subject: Re: High Quality Screen Dump
Message-ID: <385@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Feb-87 12:43:19 EST
Article-I.D.: neoucom.385
Posted: Sat Feb 21 12:43:19 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 23-Feb-87 02:13:58 EST
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: Inset or Pizzaz


	Both Inset and Pizzaz know myriad screen types: EGA, CGA,
Hercules, AT&T DEB, etc.  Both support 24 pin (Toshiba, NEC, Epson)
and Laser (HP, Apple) printers.

	Both Inset and Pizzaz intercept <shift - PrtsC> and bring
up menus.  Both menus have a "bypass" selection that allows the
vanilla printscreen function that is resident in ms-dos to be used.

	I've used both of these on 8-MHz AT compatibles with EGA
and the AT&T 6300 with AT&T hi-res display.  Both programs perform
their jobs quite well.  Both programs allow you to freeze a screen
image, save to disk, and deal with it later, a handy feature when
you don't want to wait around.  Both programs allow the image to be
clipped and scaled when it is printed.

	The best features of Pizzaz are the it can do anti-aliasing
of the image when you expand it, and there are extensive capabilities
for remapping colors into dot patterns.

	Inset is really much more, it is virtually a poor man's
desktop publisher, in that it can paste images into files that are
produced on "standard" word procesosrs such as Wordstar or MW-word,
etc.  All you need do is place the name of the picture file inside
square brackets ( [picture.pic], e.g. ) and leave white space in
your document to locate the image.  The hardest part is getting
some wordprocessors not to auto-marginate and leave the white
area.  As well as intercepting the PrtSc interrupt, Inset also
intercepts the printer port interrupt, thus enabling it to detect
when you're printing a document that should have an image put in,
and it puts it in.  Inset allows an on-screen preview of what the
finished document is going to look like in wysiwyg type word
processors.  There is also am image editor in Inset that can be
loaded or left out at your option, thus allowing you to do a little
hand embellishment before printing.

	Both packages are quite good, and I'd recommend either one.
Inset has some additonal nifty features that can breathe new life
into tired old word processors.  I think Pizzaz has a suggested
price around $50, while Inset has a suggested price of about $99.
I'm sure that both can be had for substantially less cash via mail
order outlets.

	For the sensitive among you, I don't work for any of the
these software publishers, but have put the programs to use in my
office and achieved satisfactory results.

  --Bill

Bill Mayhew
Division of Basic Medical Sciences
Notheastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine
Rootstown, OH  44272  USA    phone:  216-325-2511
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