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Can someone tell me how to deal with the GEM metafile which Uniterm
produces when one hits Alt-F3? One gets a file which contains the
picture on the graphics screen, but with much better resolution than the
Atari screen (I think something like 4000 pixels horizontal times 3000
vertical, quite appropriate for the laser printer).

I tried to print it on the SLM804 with OUTPUT.PRG and the Diablo
emulator.  I got two identical-looking pages, each showing the picture,
with the expected good resolution, but rather faint.  Why do I get two
pages?

When I try to print directly from Uniterm by selecting 'Printer' rather
than 'Metafile' after hitting Alt-F3, I get an alert box telling me
'Unable to open VDI device'.

What I would really like however is to load the metafile into a graphics
program to be able to modify it before printing (without loss of
resolution of course).  I tried two, Gemdraw and Arabesque.  Both seem
to have difficulties with the range of coordinates.  It looks as if the
high-order bits are just chopped off, so that several parts of the
picture are folded on top of each other.

I would appreciate to hear from people who have succesfully done this
kind of thing.  Do I just have outdated versions of GDOS, OUTPUT and/or
GEMDRAW?  Uniterm and Arabesque are rather up-to-date though.  Is there
anything particular in ASSIGN.SYS one has to pay attention to?   Can
someone recommend a graphics program which can deal with this?

Sorry if this has come up before, I haven't followed this news group in
recent months.

Thanks,
Klaus.
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