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" > 73 K Ghia Coupe "Denise" > 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug" > 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 > |
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