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- prtpic -- A CLI IFF picture printing utility by Brian Conrad
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-
- The program is freely distributable as long as this notice is
- included with the file.
-
- Prtpic does not display the picture it is printing and therefore
- doesn't use up any CHIP memory. It does however require the 1.3
- printer drivers. It also excepts multiple filenames and/or
- wildcards for filenames.
-
- Syntax:
- prtpic [-n] [-f] [-c width height] [-m] filelist
-
- The -n option turns OFF the formfeed after printing each picture.
- This can be useful if you are creating a collage of many picture
- files.
-
- The -f option prints the picture to the FULL dimension possible of
- the printer's limits or configuration limit, whichever is less.
-
- The -c option prints the picture the specified width and height in
- printer dots. If no width and height is specified then the
- dimenisions of the IFF file are used. This can be useful if you are
- printing a black and white picture and you want a pixel to dot
- printout.
-
- Example: prtpic -c 400 200 mypic
-
- The -m option turns offs centering.
-
- The default mode of prtpic is to print the picture in full aspect
- ratio with the picture centered.
-
- Printing may be aborted by pressing CTRL-C.
-
- Wildcard uses the asterisk to specify any number of characters and
- the question mark to wildcard one character:
-
- *.pic will print flower.pic bugs.pic but not bugs.arc
-
- brush?.p will print brush1.p brush2.p but not brush.p
-
-
- Several people have been requesting this utility over the last few
- months on some of the nets and I was suprised that no one wrote one
- so decided to write one up using some existing files I had around
- here. Prtpic owes it's existance to contributions by:
-
- Bill Joyce -- for his source code to 'strings' for implementation
- of Matt Dillon's wildcard routines.
-
- Matt Dillon for his "mattwild" wildcard routines.
-
- Jim Kent -- for simplifying the complex EA IFF code to something
- "human scale". Jiff.c used as a model for my own IFF parising
- code.
-
- Carolyn Scheppner -- for some nice printer modules in Amiga Mail.
-
- Bryce Nesbitt -- for his FlushDevice code in Amiga Mail.
- Yes, prtpic is friendly to other programs because it figures out
- whether you were using the serial.device (as in an Apple
- Imagewriter) or parallel.device (as in about everything else)
- and then removes just that device when you abort printing.
- Removing these devices is necessary to make the abort work
- correctly.
-
- ToDo's -- I might also add an icon and the ability to select files
- via clicking on icons so that this utility could also be used from
- WorkBench.
-
- Brian Conrad PLINK/BIX: BCONRAD GENIE: BDCONRAD
- P.O. Box 62
- Touchet, WA 99360
-
- May 15th,