-Printbadix is the built-in text editor in Alybadix chess problem solving program (AP.EXE).
-Two parallel editors, the first for max 100 kB and the second for max 100 MB texts (if enough RAM).
-Alybadix chess diagrams, piece figurines and solutions can be easily inserted in the editor for editing and printing.
-Supports special effects (bold, italic, underlining) and 1-4 column printing.
-Several different font sets available. In addition about 400 special postscript characters.
-Direct printing support for matrix printers and postscript (laser) printers.
-Plain texts with Alybadix solutions (without special effects and diagrams) can be saved on disk in standard
  text format. These text files can be imported to other word processors.
-Possibility to save texts and diagrams in postscript format (.PS extension) on disk.

-With help of GSview and Ghostcript utility programs (on Aly-CD) you can view and print
  postscript files on any  non-postscript printer (inkjet, laser), which works under Windows.
  More info and downloading of the newest versions from the Home Page for Ghostscript:
  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost

Contents:
1. Postscript and bit-mapped pictures
2. Example 1 of Printbadix document (Updated!)
3. Example 2 of Printbadix document (New!)

Generally used graphics formats as BMP, GIF, JPG and TIF are bit-mapped formats.
Printbadix can save documents (texts and pictures) as postscript formatted (PS extension in filenames).
The great advantage of the vector-based postcript printing is the fact that one can scale the document to
a bigger size without missing in accuracy unlike in bit-mapped printing!

     Postscript picture                                            Same picture scaled to
   created by Printbadix                                                    4 x size
 

          Bit-mapped picture                                             Same picture scaled to
          created by Figbadix                                                         2 x size

2. Example 1 of Printbadix document

The document below was edited with help of Printbadix. The diagram and Alybadix solution
for the sh#27 problem was inserted in the text. Piece figurines used in the solution instead of letters.
Printing on 3 columns. GSview previews the page as seen below (used resolution 120 dots/inch).
When printed on a paper the result is more accurate (300 dots/inch).

(click mouse left on the diagram for viewing the normal size)

3. Example 2 of Printbadix document

The document below was edited with the help of Printbadix. The document includes
all 222 Alybadix compatible (fairy) chess pieces with their two character abbreviations.
You can download the original postscript file pieces.ps here and view and
print it on A4-size with the help of GSview (on Aly-CD)!

(click mouse left on the diagram for viewing the normal size)

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