The Print Shop Single Disk

[+DrVenkman]

2 minutes ago, StickJock said:

I was just thinking, should the Print Sheet utility that I posted here be posted to another thread or location?  Maybe to the Programming forum?  It really has nothing to do with this thread topic.  It's just that this thread jogged my memory about this tool that I wrote back in '87.

 

Apart from the usefulness of the tool, the source code is useful to show how to interpret a Print Shop graphics library disk.

 

I'm still pretty new here, so I'm not sure what the etiquette is for duplicate posts / spinning posts off into new topics.

 

Eh, it's usually okay to leave something useful like this in a dedicated post or thread in the main A8 forum to let folks see it, appreciate and potentially make use of it if they have the need or interest. However, if you want to explain the code and the details of the techniques used, a separate thread in the Programming forum would seem to make perfect sense to me, no worries about spamming at all.  

[toddtmw]

On 5/9/2020 at 9:34 PM, StickJock said:

And here is the obj.

 

I just ran it.  I guess I liked flashy titles.  It's got a color strobing title.

 

I didn't even remember writing this thing until this thread popped up.  It's been 33 years, after all. 

 

Anyway, I don't have a printer hooked up, but I ran it and it will look for a Print Shop graphics disk.  If it finds one, it will load it (screen toggles between Loading and Thinking, 8 times, I think once per pic across the sheet) and then I get a long fart as it says Printing.  It repeats this for a long time, and then goes back to the main screen so that you can print out another disk.

 

I hope someone finds this useful.  If you print out some PS graphics disks, show us a pic of them.  I'd like to see what the results were.

 

Enjoy!

 

prtsheet.obj 1.39 kB · 7 downloads

So, I'd love to use this to print all of the disks I have and share them, but it adds an extra line feed on each text line. Any chance that can be fixed?

 

Thanks!

 

Print Shop Icons 1.pdf

[StickJock]

I've created a new thread for discussions of my Print Sheet utility.