PrintGal PrintMaster Art Gallery Utility David Steiner Hardware Requirement: an Epson compatible printer I don't know about you, but if you include the original art gallery provided with PrintMaster I've got eight sets of graphics to choose from. This means that there are over eight hundred different pictures that I can use for cards and whatnot. This is an awful lot of data to look through by viewing them one at a time from PrintMaster, or even flipping through the manuals. That's why I wrote PrintGal. It reads in a gallery and prints the graphics in a eight wide by nine tall matrix. This allows you to see at a glance at least half of the graphics contained in a file. To use this program you merely turn on your printer, adjust the paper and type the command PRINTGAL [d:][path]filename from the DOS prompt. You must not enter a file extension since PrintGal will add the extensions (.SDR and .SHP) for the two files that are related to the gallery. The paper should be set so the perforation is just a line or two above the print head. This is necessary to avoid printing over a perforation if there are more graphics than will fit on a page (72 graphics per page). I confess: this is a quick and dirty program and is tailored to my liking. For this reason I have included the source code in order for you to alter and hopefully improve it. The only restrictions are that you don't remove my name from the program and that if you redistribute an altered version you mark it clearly and include source code. The source included is documented well enough to allow you to make minor changes. I doubt it would be too hard to alter the program to work with PrintShop or printers of another flavor. A quick note on how to get additional art galleries: look in the public domain. There are several public domain art galleries available out there. The ones I have downloaded from GEnie were originally from the Apple computer version of PrintShop. They were converted to IBM PrintShop and I later converted them to PrintMaster. The program I used to convert from PrintShop to PrintMaster is also available on GEnie. It is called something like PM-PS-BS.ARC. You should be able to find by entering a search string related to PrintShop or PrintMaser. - PLUGS - As usual with programs I have written I am going to take a few lines and plug other software I have written for the public domain. To find any of the following files on GEnie simply do a file search using my I.D. [D.STEINER] for the uploader address. Another program I wrote to go with PrintMaster is called PMRED.ARC. This file also includes source code and it is a small resident utility that allows you to put your art galleries on your hard disk. I'm still working with the original PrintMaster, so maybe I'm behind the times if PrintMaster Plus already allows this sort of thing. My most useful program so far is called Super File Manager (SFM). This program is a disk manager. If you've ever used the program FFM (Free File Manager?) then you might like to try SFM, it has many more functions and works nicer. Full source code (Turbo Pascal) and a technical documentation manual are also distributed with it. A note in favor of this particular program: the fellows at work think its great. If you're interested in games I updated an old BASIC Yahtzee program to use the cursor keys. This seems to be the most popular item so far. I have also written a BlackJack game, but haven't released it yet. It needs a few finishing touches before I let it go. Although it's almost finished, it has been in that condition for nearly eight months. If you would be interested in a good version of BlackJack write and tell me to get on the ball with it. A few of the options: allows up to five players (something like that), computer players included, has a hint option that may be used in a tutorial fashion and allows you to set all kinds of options for the type of BlackJack you like to play. As with most of my programs, source code (Turbo Pascal) will be included if I ever finish it. Next in line for usefulness is TSREDIT. This is a memory resident text editor, very similar to the Turbo Pascal editor. It also has a few limited file management capabilities. Sorry, but this was my first big public domain project and the source code was so convoluted I deemed it best to keep it to myself. Drop me a line if you'd be interested in source code (Turbo Pascal) anyway. I am considering the advantages and difficulty of rewriting TSREDIT in Turbo C. If I get around to this I'll leave out the file management stuff and make the memory residence an option. If you're interested in seeing such a version let me know, since I probably won't do it if nobody is interested. Finally I want to make it clear that, although it would be nice to get one, contributions on software I have written are purely optional. So if you have a suggestion don't be bashful, I'd rather receive some user feedback than a contribution. To date I have only received one response, so I still don't know if anyone likes these programs.