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Subject:FW: screen dumps in books From:Lynn Perry <CLPerry -at- WALLDATA -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:31:04 -0800
Brierley -at- QUODATA -dot- COM wrote
<snip>
> They don't want a screen shot (I offered). They want the screen retyped
> into the book in such a way that lines wrap as shown on the screen.
</snip>
My previous response did not take this into account. I can certainly see why
reproducing all the screens by hand might be an issue. I'm wondering if
perhaps you could use another program to create the screens and capture them
from there, reducing the screen size in your drawing program instead of
trying to squish the characters all together using font attributes.
Especially if you can use Max' suggestion of creating a system log and
pasting the resulting text into a file.
C. Lynn Perry
clperry -at- walldata -dot- com
Wall Data Incorporated / Seattle WA
Some days it doesn't pay to gnaw through the straps
