Re: WTB: New Printshop GS

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (John Lesher)]

Gareth Jones (gareth@vcn.bc.ca) wrote:
: Ron Louie (ronlouie@u.washington.edu) wrote:
: : 	After 10 years or so with the old 5.25 Printshop, a Videx Uniprint 
: : card and a Panasonic 9-pin, I finally broke down and got a Grappler Plus, 
: : a Deskjet 600C and Harmonie drivers.  Now AW and AWGS are fine, but 
: : Printshop won't recognize the set up.  Will "The New Printshop" work?  Any 
: : other software suggestions?

: Welcome to the Print Shop Non-Fan Club. I can send you information about 
: creating Print-Shop style greeting cards in GraphicWriter. Joe Kohn ran a 
: contest on how to create PS greeting cards. (The winners, some of which 
: are apparently done in AWGS, are now available on disk from him). The 
: "Apple Blossom" newsletter just published an interesting article on how 
: to create such cards with a PostScript printer...

: Darn, I just wish that someone would do this: find a way to translate 
: Print Shop GS "Quick Print" projects into standard SHR files that can be 
: printed easily from other GS programs. That way we don't have to abandon 
: PSGS fonts, full-size graphics, borders, etc, just because PSGS doesn't 
: want to print anymore!

GraphicWriter III has a translator for importing PSGS pix.

Oh, and one more thing:  how do you get a graphics program to 
print text either sideways or upside down?  The only way I've
figured to do this is to print text in a paint program, save
the pic, then import it into your page-layout program and
fiddle with framing and rotation.

Is there a better way?

Tilghman