> Hello Ralf, > >>> Didn't Dilwyn have something like that too? >> >> I do not think so. Dilwan has written a program to save screen >> files. > > Dilwyn has written a huge amount of software as well, much of it was > available via DJC in the "olden" days :-) > > Some of it is here <http://www.dilwyn.uk6.net/printing/index.html> > I am pretty sure that he had something like that although only he > can > verify it. > > Phoebus There were two programs which often got mixed up.
SideWriter was a sideways text page printing program which essentially worked by putting the spreadsheet sideways and printing it as graphics using QL fonts! Sounds nuts, but it worked. Sector software had a similar program, not sure of its name, probably WriteTurn or something like that. The other was called OmniDump, which was sold by Sector Software for a while for use with Page Designer 2. It was a Turbo compiled program which printed Page Designer 2 pages in a fixed selection of sizes and orientations. It doesn't work on SMSQ/E systems because of a hard coded reference to either the screen or system variables (I forget which). QL World tried to compare it to Sidewriter (by Steve Jones of Zitasoft) and Grafix (by Chas Dillon/PDQL) at one point, which killed Omni Dump as it was never intended to compete with such fantastic general purpose screen and DTP page printing programs like Grafix and Sidewinder. It was only for PD2 pages. -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.12/220 - Release Date: 03/01/2006 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
