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Information about “PC-DRAFT-CAD”
PC-DRAFT-CAD is an object-oriented CAD program for drawing or drafting
on a PC. PCD-CAD is different from most drawing packages because it
can store drawings as basic elements (such as points and lines) in a
database.
PCD-CAD has all of the standard functions for drawing circles, lines,
curves, ellipses, boxes, etc., with or without a mouse. PCD-CAD goes
further with the ability to change the scale of drawings (great for
logos!) and create keyboard macros. Pull-down menus make it easy to
use.
Drawings can be exported in .GEM or .WPG file format to be used in
desktop publishing programs like Ventura Publisher and WordPerfect.
Several text fonts are available, as well as a database of commonly
used objects.
FILE1757.TXT
Disk No: 1757
Disk Title: PC-Draft-CAD
PC-SIG Version: S2.0
Program Title: PC-Draft-CAD
Author Version: 3.02
Author Registration: $65.00
Special Requirements: CGA, and an IBM, Epson, HP LaserJet or HP DeskJet
PC-DRAFT-CAD is an object oriented CAD program for drawing or drafting
on a PC. PCD-CAD is different from most drawing packages in that PCD-
CAD can store drawings as basic elements such as points and lines in a
database.
Like other products PCD-CAD has built-in functions for circles, curves,
ellipses, lines, boxes, etc. PCD-CAD goes further with the ability to
change the scale of drawings (great for logos!) and create keybord
macros. The program operates with or without a mouse and has pull-down
menus for ease of use. Drawings can be exported in GEM or WPG file
format so they can be used in desktop publishing programs like Ventura
Publisher and WordPerfect. Several text fonts are available, as well as
a database of commonly used objects.
PCD-CAD will satisfy most drafting and drawing needs.
PC-SIG
1030D East Duane Avenue
Sunnyvale Ca. 94086
(408) 730-9291
(c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.
GEMCAP.DOC
GEMCAP (TM)
4.0
USER MANUAL
(C) Copyright 1985 - 1990
All Rights Reserved
Natural Software
19 South Fifth Street
St. Charles, IL 60174
(708) 377-7320
LICENSE
THE GEMCAP SOFTWARE AND MANUAL ARE COPYRIGHTED, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESE-
RVED. YOU HAVE PURCHASED A LICENSE TO USE THIS SOFTWARE ON ONE MACHINE
AT A TIME. YOU ARE AUTHORIZED TO MAKE COPIES OF GEMCAP FOR THE SOLE
PURPOSE OF BACKING UP YOUR SOFTWARE AND PROTECTING YOUR INVESTMENT
FROM LOSS.
Note: this copy of GEMCAP is being distributed as ShareWare. This
means that you may copy the disk just as you received it and you may
give it to others for their trial use. You are also permitted and
encouraged to upload this version to electronic bulletin board servic-
es. You may not, however resell or collect any fee for the distribu-
tion of GEMCAP without the permission of Natural Software. (This does
not include the normal fees for using bulletin boards.) If you contin-
ue to use GEMCAP after your trial use, you must pay the purchase price
as detailed below.
WARRANTY
THIS SOFTWARE WILL PERFORM AS DESCRIBED HEREIN ONLY IF PROPERLY AP-
PLIED. OUR LIABILITY TO YOU IS LIMITED TO REPLACING THE SOFTWARE (FOR
REGISTERED USERS ONLY). WE HAVE NO LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGE OR
LOSS, INCLUDING SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL, CAUSED BY THIS
SOFTWARE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY.
YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE BY YOUR DECISION TO USE THIS
SOFTWARE.
_______ This program is produced by
____|__ | (tm) a member of the Association
--| | |------------------- of Shareware Professionals
| ____|__ | Association of (AS). ASP wants to make sure
| | |_| Shareware that the shareware principle
|__| o | Professionals works for you. If you are
-----| | |--------------------- unable to resolve a shareware
|___|___| MEMBER related problem with an ASP
member by contacting the member
directly, ASP may be able to
help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with
an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members'
products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at P.O. Box 5786, Belle-
vue, WA 98006 or send a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombuds-
man 70007,3536"
Table of contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ShareWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using GEMCAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Starting GEMCAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Hot Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Customizing the Hot Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Removing GEMCAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Text Mode Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Text mode fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Image Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Graphic Mode Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
ii
Introduction
GEMCAP.COM is a Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program that cap-
tures screen images from other programs. It saves these images in
separate GEM .IMG files. In the case of text based screens, the text
is converted to a bitmap. The GEM .IMG graphic file format is one of
the several "standard" formats that many other programs can read. The
primary use of GEMCAP is to incorporate screen images into desktop
publishing documents. Both Ventura Publisher and WordPerfect version
5.0 (and 5.1) can read GEM .IMG format.
GEMCAP supports a variety of display adapters and different display
modes:
Monochrome Standard IBM monochrome display adapters support text
modes only. GEMCAP will capture text mode displays and
convert them to bitmap files. To use the resulting .IMG
files, however you must have some type of display adapter
that can display graphics.
CGA On IBM Color Graphics Adapters (CGA), the high resolution
640 by 200 pixel (mode 6) is supported in addition to the
various text modes.
EGA GEMCAP can capture EGA 640 by 350 pixel 16 color (mode
10h) graphics screens.
VGA GEMCAP can capture VGA 640 by 480 pixel 16 color (mode
12h) graphics screens.
Hercules GEMCAP will not work on Hercules displays in graphics
mode. It will capture text mode screens from Hercules.
You can use your desktop publishing program to use the
resulting GEM .IMG files with Hercules displays.
On EGA and VGA displays in text mode, GEMCAP uses the RAM resident
font to convert the screen to a bitmap. This means that the resulting
bitmap represents the captured text screen exactly as it appears on
the screen, even if the program loads a specialized font.
Introduction 1
ShareWare
The GEMCAP package is being distributed as shareware. This means that
it is not free. This means that you must pay to use it. However, you
do not have to pay to try it, test it, and to determine if it is going
to be useful to you. You are probably familiar with the concept by
now. Shareware programs give you the advantage of "test driving" them.
The advantage to the developer is a relatively inexpensive distribu-
tion method. For this concept to work and keep working for our mutual
advantage, you really must register and pay for the software you
actually find useful.
Please feel free to pass along a copy of this disk to others for their
trial use. But please distribute it in its original unaltered state.
The compressed arc file: GEMCAP.ZIP is intended for uploading to your
local bulletin boards.
To register your use of GEMCAP, send $35.00 to Natural Software at the
address above. This entitles you to one upgrade to the next new
release for free (please specify the version you currently have when
registering). We will also send you a description of our other soft-
ware offerings (including PC-Draft II which lets you to edit and
enhance your captured images) and provide free telephone support as
needed.
You may use the order form provided in the file: ORDER.FRM.
Please read the file: PRODUCTS.LST for descriptions of other products
from Natural Software.
2 GEMCAP
Using GEMCAP
GEMCAP is a Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program. When you run it
from the DOS command line, it will announce its presence and quietly
sink into the background and wait to be called into action (when its
"hot key" is pressed).
Starting GEMCAP
When you run GEMCAP, you must provide it with the location and start-
ing file name to use to store the screen images it captures. For
example, you might start GEMCAP with this command:
GEMCAP C:\SCREENS\SCREENA.IMG
Now GEMCAP will store its screens in the SCREENS sub-directory. Note
that the SCREENS sub-directory must already exist. The first screen it
saves will be called SCREENA.IMG, the second will be called
SCREENB.IMG. Each subsequent .IMG file will increment the character in
the filename just before the extension. These files are graphic bit
image files compatible with any program that reads GEM .IMG files,
regardless of whether the original screen was in text mode or graphics
mode.
Note that this convention (of incrementing the last character in the
filename for each file) limits you to 26 screen saves at a time. This
is because if you start with the letter A, it will cycle through the
alphabet until it gets to Z, then the next character in ASCII sequence
is a "[", which is invalid for a filename. If you need more than 26
files, you must remove GEMCAP from memory and reload it with a differ-
ent initial filename.
The Hot Key
To activate GEMCAP and save the current screen to a .IMG file, you
Press the (Alt + .) keys (that's the period key and the Alt key) togeth-
er. You will hear a beep when GEMCAP is called. Three beeps means it
successfully wrote an .IMG file to the specified directory. Only one
beep means it was unable to create the file (could not find the
directory?). Only two beeps means it created the file, but could not
write the full screen buffer, (disk full?).
Using GEMCAP 3
The size of the file GEMCAP creates depends on the current display
mode.
GEMCAP will detect the current video mode and adjust. It converts text
mode screens into bit mapped graphics.
Like any other TSR, GEMCAP may have compatibility problems with other
software, especially other TSR's. If you have trouble, try installing
GEMCAP by itself and adding your other TSR utilities one at a time
after you get GEMCAP to work.
Customizing the Hot Key
If you have a conflict with other resident programs, you may need to
change GEMCAP's hot key. You must use DEBUG to make the change. There
are two bytes in the GEMCAP.COM file that may be changed. The first
byte represents the keyboard scan code and the second byte represents
the shift key state. The following two tables show the values (in
hexadecimal) for all the possible keyboard scan codes and shift key
states. After consulting the tables, use DEBUG to enter the values as
shown below (for example to change the hot key to (Ctrl+Z):
DEBUG GEMCAP.COM
E 0103
xxxx:0103 34.2C ; shows existing scan code, enter new code: 2C
(for 'Z')
E 0104
xxxx:0104 08.04 ; shows existing shift state, enter new code: 04
(for 'Ctrl')
W ; save changes
Q ; quit DEBUG
4 GEMCAP
This table shows keyboard scan codes for alternate hot keys:
Key Hex Key Hex Key Hex
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
Esc 01 Enter 1C PrtSc 37
!1 02 Ctrl 1D Alt 38
@2 03 A 1E Space 39
#3 04 S 1F CapLk 3A
$4 05 D 20 F1 3B
%5 06 F 21 F2 3C
^6 07 G 22 F3 3D
&7 08 H 23 F4 3E
*8 09 J 24 F5 3F
(9 0A K 25 F6 40
)0 0B L 26 F7 41
_- 0C :; 27 F8 42
+= 0D "' 28 F9 43
backsp 0E ~` 29 F10 44
tab 0F L Sft 2A NumLk 45
Q 10 |\ 2B ScrLk 46
W 11 Z 2C Home 47
E 12 X 2D Up 48
R 13 C 2E PgUp 49
T 14 V 2F - 4A
Y 15 B 30 Left 4B
U 16 N 31 5 4C
I 17 M 32 Right 4D
O 18 <, 33 + 4E
P 19 >. 34 End 4F
{[ 1A ?/ 35 Down 50
}] 1B RSHFT 36 PgDn 51
The following table shows the hexadecimal values for the possible
shift key states:
Shift key value | Alt | Ctrl | Left | Right
| | | Shift | Shift
----------------+-------+--------+--------+-------
0 | | | |
1 | | | | *
2 | | | * |
4 | | * | |
5 | | * | | *
6 | | * | * |
7 | | * | * | *
8 | * | | |
9 | * | | | *
A | * | | * |
B | * | | * | *
C | * | * | |
D | * | * | | *
E | * | * | * |
F | * | * | * | *
----------------+-------+--------+--------+-------
5 GEMCAP
Removing GEMCAP
You can remove GEMCAP from memory by running GEMCAP with a command
line argument: -R. for example:
GEMCAP -R
GEMCAP must be the last TSR program loaded for this to work properly.
By removing and then reloading GEMCAP you can change the filename so
that you can save more than 26 screens.
Text Mode Screens
When the screen is in text mode when GEMCAP is run, it converts each
screen character to a bitmap. This means that when you display or
print the resulting GEM .IMG files with your desktop publishing
program, you will get exactly what is displayed on the screen.
Text mode fonts
With monochrome, CGA, or Hercules display adapters, an internal
(within GEMCAP.COM) 8 by 8 pixel font is used.
On EGA or VGA display adapters, the RAM resident font (on the EGA or
VGA adapter) is used.
GEMCAP does not produce color GEM .IMG files. It converts color
attributes to monochrome (Black & White) as described below.
GEMCAP converts reverse video areas of the screen appropriately. Any
color attribute combination that results in darker characters with a
lighter background will be converted to reverse video. The following
color attribute combinations on the captured screen will result in
reverse video:
any of these background With these foreground
----------------------- ---------------------
green black grey
cyan blue lt blue
brown red lt red
white magenta lt magenta
If you wish to reverse the entire screen, for example from white on
black to black on white, load GEMCAP with the following command line
argument (-R) as shown below:
GEMCAP -R C:\SCREENS\SCREENA.IMG
GEMCAP will correctly capture different sized text mode screens. For
example, it can handle EGA text mode screens with 43 lines and VGA
text mode screens with 50 lines. It adjusts the internal pixel size so
that screens with different numbers of lines will display with the
correct aspect ratio.
Text Mode 6
Image Size
Note that with Ventura Publisher or WordPerfect 5.0, the size of the
image when incorporated into your document is dependent on the size of
the frame (VP) or figure (WP). For best results, you must adjust this
size (within VP or WP) so that pixels are not truncated or compressed.
You can calculate the best size for the image in your document based
on the horizontal and vertical resolution of your printer. For example
lets say you capture a VGA text mode screen that has 80 columns and 25
lines. The font size in this mode is 8 by 16 pixels. This means that
there are 400 (16 times 25) scan lines in the image and it is 640
pixels horizontally (80 times 8). You must size the image so that the
number of pixels in the image is evenly divisible by the printer
resolution. Therefore, if you have a laser printer or DeskJet printer
that prints at a resolution of 300 dots per inch (both horizontal and
vertical), a frame size of 2.13 inches by 1.33, or 4.27 inches by
2.67 inches would produce non-distorted output. Note that you must
account for the inside border space and border width when sizing
figures in WordPerfect.
7 GEMCAP
Graphic Mode Screens
When the screen is in a graphics mode, GEMCAP stores the image pixel
by pixel in the GEM .IMG file. The most common high resolution graph-
ics modes of the various display adapters are supported as follows:
CGA 640 x 200 x 2 color (mode 06h)
EGA 640 x 350 x 16 color (mode 10h)
VGA 640 x 480 x 16 color (mode 12h)
Since GEMCAP does not produce color GEM .IMG files, when EGA/VGA 16
color modes are detected, it converts the color to monochrome (Black &
White) as described below.
These dark colors are converted to Black:
Black Gray
Blue Hi-intensity Blue
Green Hi-intensity Green
Cyan Hi-intensity Cyan
These light colors are converted to White:
Red Hi-intensity Red
Violet Hi-intensity Violet
Yellow Hi-intensity Yellow
White Hi-intensity White
The size of the GEM .IMG file will vary. GEMCAP compresses the data in
the file as much as possible (for GEM .IMG file formats) by checking
for duplicate scan lines in the original image. The more complex the
image, the larger the file size.
Graphics Mode 8
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