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Subject: Re: making diagrams for MS Word document

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 14:47:06 10/29/03

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On October 28, 2003 at 22:38:30, Jim Monaghan wrote:

>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

Thanks.  Do you have 1.90 around still?  If so, does its licence allow you to
send me a copy?

Dave



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