Date:         Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:42:53 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
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From:         Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Re: sharring from ETKA
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As an update For ETKA 7 users, the tutorial can be found here:

http://z13.invisionfree.com/OneTrueKeyboard/index.php?showtopic=66

Within that tutorial, you'll find a link to pdfcreator:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

pdfcreator sets up as an additional printer and any windows program
(ETKA 7 included) can use it.  You just select Print in ETKA, then
choose the pdfcreator as the printer and it saves a .pdf document to
your hard drive.  Then when you send an email, select Attach ... and
select the saved .pdf doc.

Updates to ETKA 7 (598~623) can be found here:

http://pesc.student-orgs.purdue.edu/etka/

Mike



Old Volks Home wrote:
> ETKA images, while in a TIF or TIFF format are in a format proprietary to
> LexCom, the software maker for ETKA and cannot be opened in the more
> commonly used graphics software packages such as PaintshopPro, Corel,
> Photoshop or Illustrator.  The only solution I found was using Adobe
> Acrobat
> Professional (Version 4 or above - I use Version 6 myself) to convert them
> to PDF. The PDF writer in Acrobat acts essentially as a printer in which
> the
> "print" is saved by Acrobat as a PDF.
>
> Print functions in early versions of ETKA (thru 5.3) were cantankerous at
> best.  With ETKA 5.6 and above to the current Version 7, it operates much
> more smoothly.  ETKA Version 7 note:  when printing illustrations in ETKA
> Version 7, there are lightly seen horizontal lines generated in the
> background, I guess as to prevent scanning and "legally" using the image.
> This problem doesn't appear in prints/PDF's done with ETKA Versions 5.6
> or 6
> --
> Jim Thompson
> 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
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> oldvolkshome@gmail.com
> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
> ***********************************
> On 2/22/07, dylan friedman <insyncro@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have read about and tried to send info. via email and couldn't get
>> it to
>> work.
>> Could someone please guide me through it and provide the software titles
>> if needed.
>> I would like to use the pictures and send the pages via email.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> dylan
>