Re: Print to SHR

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-sn6-this>]

  To: Michael J. Mahon
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:02:24 -0800, "Michael J. Mahon"
<mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

>Once you get the image captured, there is no limit to the ways
>you can transform it.
>
>Of course, you won't ever get any more real pixels than the Apple
>generates, so I'm not sure what you mean by 320x400.

Actually, Apple IIs can display 320x400 as well as 640x400 but you
need an Apple II Video Overlay Card installed to be able to do it.  It
is also interlaced video so there tends to be a lot of flicker.

>Any display that can be created on the screen of any Apple II can
>be captured (either on a real Apple or on an Apple emulator) and
>you can play with it.

It seems to me he's looking for a way to print an AppleWorksGS page
layout document or whatever to a graphic file so that he'll end up
with an image of something like an 8.5" x 11" page at 150 or 300 dpi
so the resulting image would be 1275x1650 or 2550x3300 pixels
respectively.

>If you want more pixels than the screen has, you'll need to use
>PostScript.

That's what I'm thinking he'll have to do.  Use the LaserWriter
printer driver's ability to print a PostScript document to a file on
disk and then transfer that to a modern machine and use utilities on
the modern machine to convert it to whatever format he wants.

However, I'm pretty sure this driver doesn't support colour as the
LaserWriters were monochrome printers so it can only be useful for
certain conversions.

Come to think of it, I seem to recall a print capture port driver for
the IIgs that would take whatever you printed with whatever printer
driver you selected and save it to a file on disk.  This could get
around the no colour problem of the LaserWriter driver.  If the
original poster were to use this, he could possibly write a program
for either the IIgs or another machine to convert that file into
whatever format he wants.  That's kind of a neat thought.  I'll have
to file that one in my interesting Apple II program ideas.  :-)

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