Re: gscii+

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

[On your suggestion, Alan, I'm reposting this to csa2 and quoting your
message almost in its entirety...]

In article <9308040531.AA19884@heartland.bradley.edu>, Alan Morton writes...
> 
> You mentioned that this could also be done with GSCII+ NDA. Any idea
> where this can be obtained from?

    It should be on sandman.caltech.edu or pindarus.uiuc.edu via
anonymous FTP.  If not, check slab.slip.uiuc.edu.  That's Derek
Taubert's personal NeXT machine (he's the author of GScii+).

> I also have a few questions which either you may be able to help
> with or get posted to the net so see if anyone else can enlighten
> me:
> 1) I have recently upgraded my system from a //c+ to a //GS and
> am still trying to figure out a few things.

    Well, this is certainly the right place to ask.  ;-)

> 2) Is system 6.0.1 out. when I bought all this stuff in mid 
> July the dealer had copies of the disks available but said Apple
> had not released it thus it could not be put on my hard drive
> until it was released. Discussions in Apple Pulp imply that it
> is out somewhere!

    It is not yet available from ftp.apple.com, but you can order the
System 6.01 upgrade package (with or without manuals) from Resource
Central.  US$24 for the disks only, US$39 with manuals.

> 3) Are there any good word processors that are GS specific. I have been
> working on a huge 6 meg project that is being kept in real Appleworks
> files. I like to get hard copies every so often and part of the erason I
> got the GS was so that this  could be easily printed on a laser printer.
> To this end I got the Harmonie printer drivers which do not work from
> real Appleworks! BOO HISS! I also bought Appleworks GS and have
> immeadialty decided I do not like it, it acts too slow and I bought a
> card to make the computer go at Transwap speed! It  also has a problem
> with not keeping any of the formatting commands that are in the AWP
> files changing things like text size. What is being looked for is
> something that can take the real Appleworks files and import them
> quickly with all formating intact so that they can easily be printed to
> an HP laser Jet printer. Is there such a programme?

    The Harmonie drivers are for GS/OS specific programs.  AppleWorks
3.0 and all other ProDOS 8 programs use their own set of printer
drivers.  It is possible to print to an HP LaserJet from AppleWorks 3.0,
but I don't know the details.  Anyone else?

    What sort of "text size" changes are you referring to?  Changing the
pitch (10 cpi, 12 cpi, 17 cpi, etc.) is mostly irrelevant when importing
into the current crop of GS word processors.  If you use Timeout
SuperFonts however, GraphicWriter III is able to import the AW3 file
with all fonts, styles and sizes intact.

> 4) I have discovered a program that will allow one to put a SHR picture
> on the backdrop to the finder as oppoused to the blue which I do not
> care for! When I do this however the coulour in the picture turns out
> all wrong. This is also what happens when one puts the picture files in
> the paint module of AWGS. Several picture viewers however allow one to
> see these pictures with their colours correct.

    This is because of the GS's use of colour "palettes".  On the //e
and the //c, you can only use the one set of colours (6 in HGR, 16 in
DHR mode).  The GS can display 16 colours or more at a time, but you can
pick from a total of 4096 colours.  Since the standard GS/OS desktop
uses a fixed palette of colours, pictures which use another palette must
be "remapped" to use the desktop set of colours.  Otherwise pixels that
might have been red in the original become yellow when you display it
using the desktop's palette.  SHRConvert (shareware) or SuperConvert
(commercial) can do the remapping.  There is also a very simple utility
whose name escapes me at the moment that accomplishes the same thing. 
I'll see if I can find that utility.  All it shows is a standard file
dialog letting you choose a picture to convert, and then it displays it
on the desktop for inspection.

> 5) I have also been forwarded a second copy of Apple Pulp from my friend
> whom I got the information on it from to begin with You asked who one
> would like the thing posted. I would vote for real Appleworks files. I
> noted that when I imported mine and stripped the carraige returns to
> get more words on the printed page that the >>> symbols which precede
> some lines get placed in the middle of lines. is there some signifigane
> to  the >>> symbol?

    The only >'s in the file are quoted lines from previous messages. 
This is why I purposely reformatted the text with hard line breaks. 
Messages on Usenet do not lend themselves to reformatting.  If you must
remove line breaks, skip over the quoted sections.
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