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Subject: Re: making diagrams for MS Word document

Author: Jim Monaghan

Date: 19:38:30 10/28/03

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On October 28, 2003 at 20:30:17, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've been looking at the chess stuff at www.enpassant.dk, trying to figure out
>the best way to make diagrams of chess positions.
>
>I read the README.DOC for FEN2DIAG, by Alistair Scott.  The chess boards that
>come out seem to have horizontal line gaps, though perhaps that's just the font
>being used.
>
>I've also checked out EPD2DIAG, which was able to output a nice diagram to the
>clipboard for me, but I have 260 diagrams, not just a few, and it doesn't allow
>me to select them all and output them.  Also, the diagram has no indicator for
>which side is to move.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions for how best to generate a reasonably large set
>of diagrams for use in MS Word?  Is there free stuff out there that does what I
>want?  Is there commercial stuff out there that will do it well?
>
>Dave

Problemiste does this very nicely. It prints 9 diagrams per page (on its default
setting) and can read epd files and pgn files complete with headers, bm tags
etc. Check out this link:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/problemiste/

Version 1.90 used to be free, but no longer.

Cheers,
Jim




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