LPT2HR.DOC

 LPT2HR (c) 1986 by Chrisdos. All rights reserved.
 
 Ver 1.0

LPT2HR will allow the C64 to read in and convert a standard Line Printer picture
file to a High Resolution screen, and to a Doodle disk file.

 All that is required is that you have the Seq lineprinter text file on disk.
Instead of printing the data to a printer, LPR2HR will print it to the
hires screen.

Simply load and run LPT2HR. You will see the opening screen, and will be 
prompted for the name of the file to read in.
(If you make a mistake and enter an invalid file name, hit RUN/STOP/RESTORE
and rerun the program.)

After entering the file name, LPT2HR will read the data and build a table of
the ASCII characters it finds in the file. You are then required to indicate
if each character is to be black or white.
The characters will display on the top of the screen (LPT2HR spports up to 40
different characters in a file.) and you will see an up arrow under the first.
The first character is allways a <SPACE>, you then press the <SPACE BAR> if
you wish SPACE characters in the file the be translated to WHITE, or you may
press <*> if you wish that character to be translated to BLACK.
The up arrow will then move to the next character in the line, and you repeat
the process. After the last character is defined, the picture will draw on the
screen.

If you wish to redefine the translations, press <F1> and you will be prompted
again for a new set. The image will then be redrawn using the new translation.

To EXIT the program press <RETURN>.
To produce a DOODLE image file from the screen, press <+> for a positive
dump or <-> for a negitive dump.
You will be prompted for a filename. Don't forget to add the prefix "DD" to
the name.

Notes:
 LPR2HR uses black as the background color, and white as the forground color.
The screen is cleared by SETTING all pixels. Black lines are drawn by resetting
the pixels required. A Positive Doodle dump produces set pixels white.
A Negative Doodle dump produces set pixels black.


Any questions or comments about this program may be directed to SYSOP in the
CBIG SIG. (go CBIG on CompuServ.) 
 -Chrisdos [76703,717]